Note: This post is part 2 of 4 on building our training workshop. Last week I talked about why you don’t want to shard. This week I’m following up with the top 10 enhancements that XtraDB has over the built-in InnoDB included in MySQL 5.0 and 5.1. Building this list was not really a scientific [...]
5.0.84-build18 Percona binaries
August 11, 2009 By 4 Comments
Dear Community, The 18-th build of MySQL server with Percona patches is available now. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.84 Fixed the issue with CLIENT_STATISTICS New patch innodb_recovery_patches.patch greatly improves recovery time Fixed bugs in the build: Bug #407117 in Percona patches: “any mysql-test fails [...]
5.0.83-build17 Percona binaries
July 28, 2009 By 19 Comments
Dear Community, The build 17 of MySQL with Percona patches is available. New features in the release: MySQL-5.0.83 is taken as the basis The new patch innodb_use_sys_malloc.patch is added The new patch innodb_split_buf_pool_mutex.patch is added This patch splits the single global InnoDB buffer pool mutex into several mutexes for different purposes. This reduces mutex contention. [...]
5.0.77 / 5.0.82 -build16 Percona binaries
June 11, 2009 By 4 Comments
Dear community, We are pleased to announce the build16 of MySQL server® with Percona patches. Since the build13 there was a couple of customer specific releases, which explains cutover in numbering and a pause between the builds. Also we prepared build for both 5.0.77 and 5.0.82 versions. Since that time new patches were added: profiling_slow.patch [...]
Global Transaction ID and other patches available!
May 13, 2009 By 9 Comments
I do not know if you noticed it, but Google (Mark Callaghan, Justin Tolmer and their internal mysql-team) made a great contribution to MySQL. Patches global transaction IDs, binlog event checksums and crash-safe replication state are separated and published on Launchpad (https://code.launchpad.net/~jtolmer/mysql-server/global-trx-ids). For me it was a big wall in using these patches that they [...]
Looking on 5.4 – IO bound benchmarks
April 30, 2009 By 5 Comments
With a lot of talks around 5.4 I decided to check how it works in our benchmarks. For first shoot I took tpcc-like IO-bound benchmark (100W, ~10GB of data, 3GB buffer_pool) and tested it on our Dell PowerEdge R900 box (16 cores, 32GB of RAM, RAID 10 on 8 SAS 2.5″ 15K RPM disks). For [...]
Call for opinions: Do we need MySQL 5.0 with MySQL 5.4 performance
April 29, 2009 By 12 Comments
MySQL 5.4 comes with Innodb engine which seems to have much better performance than MySQL 5.0 – this is due to locking and IO patches from Google integrated in this release (which are similar to appropriate Percona patches) as well as some unique fixes such as different innodb_thread_concurrency handling and other optimization. Should we take [...]
Compression for InnoDB backup
March 16, 2009 By 19 Comments
Playing with last version of xtrabackup and compress it I noticed that gzip is unacceptable slow for both compression and decompression operations. Actually Peter wrote about it some time ago, but I wanted to review that data having some new information. In current multi-core word the compression utility should utilize several CPU to speedup operation, [...]
Debian / Ubuntu Percona builds
March 9, 2009 By 8 Comments
We had too many requests for deb builds of Percona releases so I could not ignore that and added scripts to build binaries on our Ubuntu 8.10 box. It’s going to be only 64bit releases (32bit is dead, isn’t it?), and I tested binaries on Debian Lenny system and it seems working fine. So I [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.2-3 (Spring edition) codename Sapporo
March 2, 2009 By 10 Comments
Today we announce release 1.0.2-3 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements: Move to MySQL 5.1.31 Scalability fix — ability to use several rollback segments Increasing the number of rseg may be helpful for CPU scale of write-intentional workloads. See benchmark results. Scalability fix — replaced page_hash mutex to page_hash read-write [...]
