May 25, 2012

Post: Upgrading MySQL

Upgrading MySQL Server is a very interesting task as you can approach it … need to deal with. Stress Testing Running single stream of queries with good speed is not enough. You also need to perform stress testing to ensure both MySQL

Post: Percona Server 5.1.59-13.0

server in a replication environment, the process can be speed up by having prefetch threads to warm the server… Backported fix for MySQL bug #53761 (Wrong estimate for RANGE query with compound indexes…). Improvements and fixes on the Percona Server Test Suite: #862378, #862252, #860416, #838725, #…

Post: Percona Server 5.5.16-22.0

MySQL 5.5.16, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Serverserver in a replication environment, the process can be speed up by having prefetch threads to warm the server…startup to the server. #785489 (Alexey Kopytov). The Slow Query …and fixes on the Percona Server Test Suite: #760085, #803140, #…

Post: Getting real life query speeds with MySQL

… System cache speeding up query run. So what can you do ? First decide on what are you looking to test – do you want to test worse… a lot of queries to simulate situation even remotely close to real world. Get large number of similar queries from your MySQL server logs or generate…

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

… and spindle speed. I need to know how…query logs in the stock MySQL server are extremely limited, and for serious analysis it’s basically mandatory to use a serverto it, and show the difference afterwards. Or we might have a test server to run on. It varies widely; some clients have a test server

Post: TPC-H Run on MySQL 5.1 and 6.0

MySQL Also was very slow running some queries so we changed scripts a bit to kill extremely long running queries toqueries within an hour. We can also see MySQL 6.0 improving query 20 speed dramatically, the rest of the queries is however close and MySQLServer

Post: MySQL Crash Recovery

to crash again – such crashes qucikly following one another are kind of worse because they explore many less tested code paths in MySQL…file_per_table=1 your recovery speed will depend on number of Innodb… If you restart MySQL server its caches (key_buffer, innodb_buffer_pool, query_cache,table_cache)…

Post: Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1

Server 5.1.50-rel12.1 is now based on MySQLto handle end-of-line in BLOB fields differently. This change also fixed bug #625066. (Sasha Pachev) response_time_distribution – Counts queries

Post: Improved InnoDB fast index creation

test with innodb_buffer_pool_sizeset to approximately 1/10th of the dataset: mysql> SET expand_fast_index_creation=OFF; Query…creation chapter in the MySQL manual: “… you can generally speed the overall process … Peter’s post MySQL bug #57583 MySQL bug #49120 Fast Index Creation page in Percona Server

Post: Cache Performance Comparison

MySQL Query Cache (Unix Socket) 13500 Selecting from table (TCP/IP) 5100 Selecting from table (Unix Socket) 7400 Note: The testto MySQL Query Cache – It performs faster than Query Cache if TCP/IP socket is used, but if Unix Socket is used to connect to MySQL MySQL Query