June 20, 2013

Post: Rebuilding MySQL with same options

… was supposed to be used for bug submission. I never have seen anyone using it for this purpose but it …mysql‘ ‘–without-debug’ ‘–without-readline’ ‘–without-libedit’ ‘–without-bench’ ‘–without-extra-tools‘ ‘–with-libwrap’ ‘–with-mysqlfs’ ‘–with-low-memory’ ‘–with-comment=FreeBSD port: mysql

Post: xtrabackup-0.7 (RC)

… xtrabackup tool and we consider it stable enough to put label RC on it. Changelist includes: – use O_DIRECT by default for…) RPM for RHEL4 and RHEL5 (compatible with CentOS also), DEB for Debian/Ubuntu, tar.gz for Mac OS / Intel and .tar.gz for FreeBSD 7: http://www.percona.com/mysql/xtrabackup/0.7…

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

… denominator. We often use tools to gather a lot of the data for us and speed … environment I’m in — obviously a FreeBSD box is different). For example, [percona@db1 ~]$ uname -a …mysql –user=mysql –pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid –skip-external-locking –port=3306 –socket=/var/db/mysql/mysql

Post: SystemTap - DTrace for Linux ?

…Solaris, FreeBSD, MacOS, but not on Linux. However I follow the project SystemTap fortool, because there is no simple way under Linux to profile not CPU-bound load (for CPU-bound there is OProfile, see for…that I tried to hack around MySQL ® probe process(“/usr/libexec/mysqld”).function(“*innobase…

Post: xtrabackup-0.9

…, The release 0.9 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download. Changelog: tar4ibd could not treat over… the page header 0″ Bug #394374: “Can’t compile with MySQL 5.1″ Bug #394781: “xtrabackup requires write permissions on original… packages for RHEL4,5, Debian, FreeBSD, MacOS as well as source code of the XtraBackup is available on http://www.percona.com/mysql

Post: xtrabackup-0.8

…, The release 0.8 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download. Key features: New mode of innobackupex… Vadim’s post “Impossible – possible, moving InnoDB tables between servers”for details) tar4ibd is made to be sure that read of… packages for RHEL4,5, Debian, FreeBSD as well as source code of the XtraBackup is available on http://www.percona.com/mysql/xtrabackup…

Post: Percona is hiring a consultant

…We are looking for the following qualifications: Expert knowledge of MySQL. Not just “certified” — years of…networking. You need to be able to use tools such as gdb, strace, tcpdump, etc …Sphinx, and load balancers. Other operating systems such FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. Amazon’s cloud offerings. …

Comment: SysBench - benchmark tool

… been using sysbench for a while on a Pentium 4 running FreeBSD 6.2 and it’s been a great tool providing great… noticed that hardware components may have a substantial impact on MySQL‘s performance, especially when you choose between genuine and so…