Today’s blog post diving into the waters of the MySQL buffer pool is a cross-post from Groupon’s engineering blog, and is Part 1 of 2. Thank you to Kyle Oppenheim at Groupon for contributing to this project and post. We’ll be posting Part 2 on Thursday. I’ll be at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 2: Multi-Master replication
January 19, 2012 By 22 Comments
This is about the second great feature – Multi-Master replication, what you get with Percona XtraDB Cluster. It is recommended you get familiar with general architecture of the cluster, described on the previous post. By Multi-Master I mean the ability to write to any node in your cluster and do not worry that eventually you [...]
Infinite Replication Loop
October 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
Last week I helped 2 different customers with infinite replication loops. I decided to write a blog post about these infinite loop of binary log statements in MySQL Replication. To explain what they are, how to identify them… and how to fix them.
Percona Server 5.5.15 + Galera 21.1-beta2
October 3, 2011 By 18 Comments
Codership team published beta2 of MySQL 5.5.15 with Galera replication https://launchpad.net/codership-mysql and we made port to Percona Server: source code: lp:~percona-dev/percona-server/percona-server-galera-5.5.15 binaries for RedHat/CentOS 6: http://www.percona.com/downloads/TESTING/Galera/Percona-XtraDB-Galera-5.5.15.tar.gz What difference between Percona Server+Galera and MySQL 5.5.15 ? First of course, Percona Server+Galera is based on our XtraDB engine. Second, we provide wsrep_sst_xtrabackup script, which allows to use [...]
Is disk Everything for MySQL Performance ?
April 25, 2008 By 7 Comments
I read very nice post by Matt today and it has many good insights though I can’t say I agree on all points. First there is a lot of people out where which put it as disk is everything. Remember Paul Tuckfield saying “You should ask how many disks they have instead of how many [...]
