Our customers or prospective customers often ask us how we do a performance audit (it’s our most popular service). I thought I should write a blog post that will both answer their question, so I can just reply “read all about it at this URL” and share our methodology with readers a little bit. This [...]
A quest for the full InnoDB status
October 31, 2008 By 4 Comments
When running InnoDB you are able to dig into the engine internals, look at various gauges and counters, see past deadlocks and the list of all open transactions. This is in your reach with one simple command —
1 | SHOW ENGINE InnoDB STATUS |
. On most occasions it works beautifully. The problems appear when you have a large spike in [...]
Updated msl (microslow) patch, installation walk-through!
April 20, 2008 By 17 Comments
For a couple of months there have been no updates to our msl patch, however recently I managed some time to change this. The functionality was extended a little bit and what’s even more important the patch is available for all the recent MySQL releases. To remind anyone who has not yet come across this [...]
