June 18, 2013

Post: How to fix your PRM cluster when upgrading to RHEL/CentOS 6.4

…in maintenance mode before the update, see bellow how to perform this action [root@percona1 percona]# yum update -y [root@...MySQL [p_mysql] (unmanaged) p_mysql:0 (ocf::percona:mysql): Master percona1 (unmanaged) p_mysql:1 (ocf::percona:mysql): Slave percona2 (unmanaged) p_mysql:2 (ocf::percona:mysql

Post: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - MySQL Webinar: June 5

… the others, the resulting system may be over-engineered, poorly-performing, and/or various other flavors of suboptimal. On Wednesday, June… (largely grouped into those which use traditional MySQL replication, those which use some other MySQL-level replication, and those which replicate at…

Post: ZFS on Linux and MySQL

… few slave instances each of production database servers and will perform the backups.  The write load is not excessive so a… a copy on write filesystem, the snapshots are free, no performance penalty.  You can easily run a server with hundreds of… is a very interesting solution for MySQL backup servers.  All backup solutions have an impact on performance with ZFS the impact is…

Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland: June 17

…, free, fast-paced and very technical MySQL educational event for wide range of people interested in MySQL – Developers, System Administrators, DBAs, etc… speaking opportunities available – if you would like to share your MySQL story at this event please email Matthew Dowell by Tuesday…

Comment: How to calculate a good InnoDB log file size

…/lib/mysql/ib_logfile* -rw-rw—- 1 mysql mysql 536870912 May 21 22:23 /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0 -rw-rw—- 1 mysql mysql 536870912 May… InnoDB: https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/innodb_recovery_is_now_faster And from the manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-performance-recovery.html “If you kept the…

Post: How people are using MySQL... from 1 user to 100 million (upcoming conference talk)

MySQL can be deployed in several ways, and that means you …

Comment: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 1

It may not be easy to simply switch from regular MySQL replication to using replication using GTIDs 1. Temporary tables – CREATE… db. 3. CREATE TABLE …. SELECT – It is not supported to perform such type of statements http://mysqlopt.blogspot.co.uk/2013…

Comment: Percona Playback 0.6 for MySQL now available

I don’t see the reason for inventing such a tool – isn’t the overhead of reading/parsing query logs and tcp dumps very large? Doesn’t this affect the performance metrics? Why not just replay binary logs (simulating concurrent connections using script) or proxy live data to a second server.

Comment: Is Synchronous Replication right for your app?

Jay – Yoshinori found one performance bug for semi-sync — http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=69341. Wonder if there are others.

Comment: ZFS on Linux and MySQL

… may have found the main performance bottleneck (benchmark in progress), if I am right, I’ll write another blog post about it.