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Post: Interesting MySQL and PostgreSQL Benchmarks
… interesting to see CPU comparison in this test. Woodcrest has best performance in this test (and in many other MySQL tests), Opteron comes second and… seen much better on this picture Linux vs Solaris comparison is also pretty interesting. With MySQL Linux has higher peak but Solaris suffers…
Post: MySQL Workshops: Chicago & London this April
…performance. Use successful patterns behind MySQL applications, and avoid design decisions that don’t fit MySQL very well. Solve some common application performance…diagnostic tools in Linux. Investigate database trends via the counters exposed in MySQL‘s SHOW GLOBAL STATUS. Backup & restore MySQL …
Post: Meet Percona at Southeast Linux Fest
Percona will be at Southeast Linux Fest tomorrow and Saturday. We’re supporting the event, and …’s grown enormously in the last few years. Peter and I will both be speaking: Peter about optimizing MySQL configuration, and I will talk about inspecting MySQL‘s performance and scalability via TCP packet headers. In addition, the entire…
Post: Tutorial Insights for Percona Live, London
… picked number of them after seeing outstanding speaker Performance in other Places. Let me tell in little bit more details about people we… and their talks. Yoshinori Matsunobu Talk on Linux Hardware and Optimizations for MySQL at Oreilly MySQL Conference and Expo was phenomenal. I wrote…
Post: MySQL Life Cycle. Your Feedback is needed.
… when you see old MySQL versions are used is typically when application is not overly demanding so performance improvements in recent releases is… offer MySQL upgrade to the next major version out of the box it is not a big surprise people running older Linux distributions are more frequently to stay on old MySQL releases. Now where I’m looking…
Post: Profiling MySQL Memory Usage With Valgrind Massif
… is VG_N_SEGMENTS in coregrind/m_aspacemgr/aspacemgr-linux.c (when you see ‘Valgrind…in /usr/local/percona/mysql-5.5.28/usr/sbin/mysqld) | | ->10.10% (7,135,744B) 0x5300A8: ??? (in /usr/local/percona/mysql… likely find that the default options will perform well in most scenario’s. For the …
Post: Percona and the MariaDB Foundation
… projects, such as Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation or FreeBSD Foundation. A Foundation… best performance and lowest downtime possible. We focus on compatibility with Oracle MySQL, High … for inclusion in Percona Server and other Percona software, wherever in the MySQL Ecosystem they …
Post: InnoDB/XtraDB Training in New York City!
… on October 30, 2009. We’ve booked a training venue in the financial district of Manhattan (90 Broad Street New York… from using hotels to teaching in real classrooms. This means that every student will have a (Linux) computer provided, and the…’re continuing our early bird special (a copy of High Performance MySQL 2nd Ed). Interested in signing up? Registration is open!
Post: Heikki Tuuri Innodb answers - Part I
… happening at the same time HT: All read-aheads are performed in the Unix version with a single thread. Only one read…: memlock already works – it is global MySQL Server option, though it may have problems on Linux if you lock very large portion…_innodb.cc in 5.1: static MYSQL_SYSVAR_ULONG(thread_concurrency, srv_thread_concurrency, PLUGIN_VAR_RQCMDARG, “Helps in performance tuning in heavily concurrent environments…

