June 17, 2013

Post: The small improvements of MySQL 5.6: Duplicate Index Detection

MySQL Performance Blog, we’ve been discussing the several new features that MySQL

Post: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL

…the CVE-2012-5627 vulnerability, where an unprivileged MySQL account owner could perform brute-force password guessing attack on other accounts …for the User Statistics tables in INFORMATION_SCHEMA (CLIENT_STATISTICS, INDEX_STATISTICS, TABLE_STATISTICS, THREAD_STATISTICS, and USER_STATISTICS) led …

Post: MySQL and the SSB - Part 2 - MyISAM vs InnoDB low concurrency

… adaptive hash index is improving performance of InnoDB significantly during the hot run, as hash indexes are faster than a b-tree index. Also… almost always performs better, at least for this workload. Notes MySQL version used: 5.6.11, custom compiled to remove performance_schema For… [mysqld] datadir=/mnt/mysql56/data basedir=/usr/local/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=justin innodb_buffer_pool_size=64G innodb…

Post: MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized - Webinar questions followup

… subqueries) and we saw in my presentation that sometimes these perform worse and sometimes better than another equivalent solution. If you… solution for randomly choosing rows involves some compromise, either of performance, or of accuracy of randomness.  The ORDER BY RAND() solution… in this case to force MySQL to scan the `title` table first, grouping by kind_id in index order.  This made the…

Post: Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 first Release Candidate now available

… id=”attachment_13396″ align=”alignright” width=”247″] Percona Server for MySQL version 5.6.11-60.3[/caption] Percona is glad… performance on write-intensive workloads. Bug fixed #1171699. Incorrect schema definition for the User Statistics tables in INFORMATION_SCHEMA (CLIENT_STATISTICS, INDEX

Post: Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.2 now available

… Server for MySQL will now be shipped with the libjemalloc library. Benchmark showing the impact of memory allocators on MySQL performance can be found in this blogpost. (Ignacio Nin) This release of Percona Server for MySQL has fixed a number of performance… explicitly named foreign key constraint which implied an implicit secondary index with the same name. Fixed by detecting such cases and…

Post: MySQL and Percona Server in LinkBench benchmark

… related to BUG#67808. For MySQL 5.6.11 top mutexes is &buf_pool->mutex,&new_index->lock. I profiled 5.6… second for MySQL 5.6.11. Conclusion: In CPU-bounds case MySQL performs quite well, though we can see small performance drop in MySQL 5.6. In IO-bound cases MySQL still has performance issues…

Post: Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2 rerelease fixes non-restart issue

… Server for MySQL will now be shipped with the libjemalloc library. Benchmark showing the impact of memory allocators on MySQL performance can be found in this blogpost. (Ignacio Nin) This release of Percona Server for MySQL has fixed a number of performance… explicitly named foreign key constraint which implied an implicit secondary index with the same name. Fixed by detecting such cases and…

Post: More on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization

….g. in the first two cases Percona Server performance is even slightly ahead of MySQL 5.6.10, but nothing unexpected. So…_connections=5000 table_open_cache=5000 query_cache_type=OFF performance_schema=0 warmup To warmup server and load data and…-test-mode=nontrx –oltp-read-only=off –oltp-index-updates=0 –oltp-non-index-updates=0 run POINT_SELECT + UPDATE QPS test…

Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.1.1 GA

…while providing unique features for MySQL backup. The new 2.1.1 GA version offers improved performance, enterprise-grade security, and lower…of threads started by XtraBackup when rebuilding secondary indexes on innobackupex –apply-log –rebuild-indexes. This allows parallel processing of individual …