May 19, 2013

How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

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 [...]

Percona build7 with latest patches

We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 7 which include patches we recently announced. The -percona release includes:

and -percona-highperf release additionaly includes

You can download RPMs for RedHat / CentOS 4.x and 5.x for x86_64, binaries, sources and patches there

Finding what Created_tmp_disk_tables with log_slow_filter

Whilst working with a client recently I noticed a large number of temporary tables being created on disk.

New patches, new builds

We made new patches, improved previous and want to announce new builds for 5.0.62, 5.0.67 and 5.1.26 versions. One of biggest changes we separated releases of 5.0 into two branches. First, just “-percona” release is more stable and contains only stable and proven on many installation patches. Second is “-percona-highperf” release, which contains experimental patches [...]

Percona RPMS for RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 x86_64

We prepared RPMs of our release for RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 x86_64 platform. http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/RPM/RHEL5/5.0.62/ There was question what patcheset includes and if there is manuals. We have: microsecond resolution in slow-log extended query plan in slow-log and InnoDB statistics. You can read more here http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/04/20/updated-msl-microslow-patch-installation-walk-through/ User / Table / Index statistics (Google’s patch). More [...]

Percona builds with Percona patchsets

Percona has a strong team of MySQL developers and consultants on board, so we decided to prepare builds with our patches and third-party patches which we think are very useful. We actually use these internally and for our customers. Current releases include: microslow patch (enables microsecond resolution in slow logs) execution plan (show info about [...]

Updated msl (microslow) patch, installation walk-through!

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 [...]

Slow Query Log analyzes tools

MySQL has simple but quite handy feature – slow query log, which allows you to log all queries which took over define number of seconds to execute. There is also an option to enable logging queries which do not use indexes even if they take less time (–log-queries-not-using-indexes) Slow query log is great to spot [...]