Lately we’ve had many reports of the RPM packages for CentOS 5 (mostly) and CentOS 6 having issues when installing different combinations of our products, particularly with Percona Toolkit for MySQL. Examples of bugs related to these issues are lp:1031427 and lp:1051874. These problems arise when trying to install a package from the distribution that [...]
Can’t Create Thread: Errno 11 (A Tale of Two Ulimits)
February 4, 2013 By 10 Comments
Recently some of my fellow Perconians and I have noticed a bit of an uptick in customer cases featuring the following error message:
1 2 | SQLSTATE[HY000] [1135] Can't create a new thread (errno 11); if you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug. |
The canonical solution to this issue, if you do a bit of Googling, is to increase the number of processes / threads available to the MySQL user, typically by adding a [...]
How to start a Percona XtraDB Cluster
January 29, 2013 By 10 Comments
Before version 5.5.28 of Percona XtraDB Cluster, the easiest way was to join the cluster using wsrep_urls in [mysqld_safe] section of my.cnf. So with a cluster of 3 nodes like this : node1 = 192.168.1.1 node2 = 192.168.1.2 node3 = 192.168.1.3 we defined the setting like this :
1 | wsrep_urls=gcomm://192.168.1.1:4567,gcomm://192.168.1.2:4567,gcomm://192.168.1.3:4567 |
With that line above in my.cnf [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.66-14.2
January 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.66-14.2 on January 15th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.66, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.66-14.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2
December 7, 2012 By 2 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2 on December 7th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
MySQL 5.6.7-RC in tpcc-mysql benchmark
October 8, 2012 By 21 Comments
MySQL 5.6.7 RC is there, so I decided to test how it performs in tpcc-mysql workload from both performance and stability standpoints. I can’t say that my experience was totally flawless, I bumped into two bugs: MySQL 5.6.7 locks itself on CREATE INDEX MySQL 5.6.7-rc crashed under tpcc-mysql workload But at the end, is not [...]
Percona Playback 0.3 development release
July 10, 2012 By 15 Comments
I’m glad to announce the third Percona Playback release – another alpha release of a new software package designed to replay database server load. The first two versions were released in April, just in time for my talk at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo: Replaying Database Load with Percona Playback. This is still [...]
Impact of memory allocators on MySQL performance
July 5, 2012 By 11 Comments
MySQL server intensively uses dynamic memory allocation so a good choice of memory allocator is quite important for the proper utilization of CPU/RAM resources. Efficient memory allocator should help to improve scalability, increase throughput and keep memory footprint under the control. In this post I’m going to check impact of several memory allocators on the [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster reference architecture with HaProxy
June 20, 2012 By 63 Comments
This post is a step-by-step guide to set up Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in a virtualized test sandbox. I used Amazon EC2 micro instances, but the content here is applicable for any kind of virtualization technology (for example VirtualBox). The goal is to give step by step instructions, so the setup process is understandable and [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.24
June 7, 2012 By 4 Comments
I am happy to announce next version Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.24, which is mostly jump to the current version of Percona Server. It includes an important bug fix: table with no PK but still having UK, can cause crash in slave using PA Binaries are available from downloads area or from our repositories. For this [...]
