May 25, 2012

Post: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release

… Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5… talks: Tutorial on PL MySQL Conference Galera Synchronous Multi-Master Replication for MySQL. My talk on PL MySQL Conference Percona XtraDB Cluster: New… best to eliminate bugs and problems during alpha and beta testing release, but this is a software, so bugs are expected…

Post: MySQL/Innodb scalability tests after fix

… something obvious in MySQL settings as well as to let them know the fix is now out for Innodb scalability bug and they can rerun the test to see if there are any difference. Recently Tweakers.net published comparison of MySQL… and will be different in other benchmarks) we can see MySQL scalability problem with high number of CPUs and high concurrency is…

Post: Scaling problems still exist in MySQL 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5

MySQL 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5 do not solve all scalability problems even for read only workloads. Workloads which got… that well. This is why it is important to test performance and scalability for your application on your hardware if you really… 12 physical cores and 24 threads, which is almost perfect scalability. So there are workloads where the problem is solved and…

Post: Test Drive of Solid

… look on new transactional engine for MySQL. While my far goal is the performance and scalability testing before I wanted to look at… multi versioning system ? Test 3: Phantom rows: before test: mysql> select * from test2; +—-+———–+ | id | names | +—-+———–+ | 1 | Mysql | | 2 | Solid | | 3 | MyISAM | +—-+———–+ Session1: mysql> begin; Query…

Post: Upgrading MySQL

testing to ensure both MySQL does not crash under your load as well s it scales well. There have been number of scalability bugs in MySQL history when issues would only happen at high load. You can do this in test/stress test envinronment…

Post: Modeling MySQL Capacity by Measuring Resource Consumptions

… model baron has published for example is good for measuring scalability of the system as concurrency growths. In many cases however… which include both latching as well as inevitable application specific scalability restrictions, such as row level locks. There is also a… and user CPU usage of MySQL process in 1/100 of the second. (This is pretty idle test system). So 347 and…

Post: Using Multiple Key Caches for MyISAM Scalability

MySQL history you may think Key Cache scalability was fixed with new Key Cache in MySQL… +——————————————————————————————-+ | CACHE INDEX test.a IN test_a; | | CACHE INDEX test.b IN test_b; | …

Post: MySQL Users Conference - Innodb

… least MySQL 5.1 with row level replication readily available. Speaking about community items the following were most interesting: Further Scalability improvements… we should test them and make binaries with them available. With current MySQL 5.0 I still see Innodb having serious scalability problems… so it is still important. IO Scalability patches Mark Callaghan from Google released so many MySQL patches so we can call patched…

Post: Interesting MySQL and PostgreSQL Benchmarks

… CPU bound benchmark with working set fitting in memory. MySQL and PostrgreSQL Scalability on Xeon Woodcrest, Opteron and Niagra Pretty interesting to… fix for this scalability problem and it is merged into MySQL 5.0.30 “Enterprise” but according to the tests I’ve done… this test (and in many other MySQL tests), Opteron comes second and older Intel Xeons as well as Niagra being outsiders. Niagra scalability is…

Post: Modeling InnoDB Scalability on Multi-Core Servers

…. The modeling I performed is Universal Scalability Law modeling, which can predict both software and hardware scalability, depending on how it is used. In brief, the benchmarks are sysbench’s read-only and read-write tests, and… of taking 12 cores away from MySQL and giving them to sysbench. That way we could test with 48 cores and see…