Xaprb (Baron) recently blogged about how InnoDB performs a checkpoint , I thought it might be useful to explain another important mechanism that affects both response time and throughput – The transaction log.
MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive
December 20, 2010 By 25 Comments
As we can see, MySQL 5.5.8 comes with great improvements and scalability fixes. Adding up all the new features, you have a great release. However, there is one area I want to touch on in this post. At Percona, we consider it important not only to have the best peak performance, but also stable and predictable performance. I refer you [...]
Percona Server 5.1.49-rel12.0
September 15, 2010 By 6 Comments
Dear Community, Starting with this release, we introduce a new release model for Percona Server. From now on, we will have both Stable and Release Candidate releases. Release Candidates will introduce new features not yet available in Stable releases. Along with new features, our new 5.1.49-12.0 RC contains a couple of patches from the Facebook-MySQL [...]
Query Response time histogram – new feature in Percona Server
July 11, 2010 By 11 Comments
Recently we had couple posts dedicated to performance monitoring, i.e. Color code your performance numbers, Performance Optimization and Six Sigma, so you may understand we consider stability of performance numbers as one of important area for database management. That’s why we decided to add histogram of queries response times into Percona Server, and our software [...]
Recall of Percona Server 5.1.47-11.0
June 29, 2010 By 10 Comments
Percona Server release 11.0 which we announced few days ago unfortunately was released with a bug introduced while implementing stripping comments in query cache which could cause server crash with certain types of queries if query cache is enabled. We have released Percona Server release 11.1 which includes a fix for this issue. If you [...]
Security fixes for MySQL 4.0 and 4.1
June 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
In Percona Server security fix releases I mentioned patches for MySQL 4.0 and 4.1. I am happy to announce that GoDaddy.com released patches for MySQL 4.0 and MySQL 4.1 under GPL license and you can get them from our Launchpad: for 4.0: lp:~percona-dev/percona-patches/4.0.30 ( or https://launchpad.net/~percona-dev/percona-patches/4.0.30 ) for 4.1: lp:~percona-dev/percona-patches/4.1.24 ( or https://launchpad.net/~percona-dev/percona-patches/4.1.24) Fixed bugs: [...]
Percona-XtraDB-9.1: released and new coming features
March 17, 2010 By 14 Comments
Recently Alexandr announced new Percona-XtraDB-9.1 release, and now it is good time to summarize features we have and what is expected soon. This release contains long waited features from 5.0: extended slow.log USER/TABLE/INDEX/CLIENT_STATISTICS + THREAD_STATISTICS ( coming in release-10) Extended slow.log is now even more extended, there is additional information for each query:
1 | # Bytes_sent: 4973 Tmp_tables: 1 Tmp_disk_tables: 1 Tmp_table_sizes: 7808 |
That [...]
Missleading Innodb message on recovery
February 15, 2010 By 2 Comments
As I wrote about 2 years ago the feature of Innodb to store copy of master’s position in Slave’s Innodb tablespace got broken. There is a lot of discussions at the corresponding bug report while outcome of the fix remained uncertain for me (the bug is market duplicate while the bugs it seems to be [...]
Introducing percona-patches for 5.1
February 9, 2010 By 21 Comments
Our patches for 5.0 have attracted significant interest. You can read about SecondLife’s experience here, as well as what Flickr had to say on their blog. The main improvements come in both performance gains and improvements to diagnostics (such as the improvements to the slow log output, and INDEX_STATISTICS). Despite having many requests to port [...]
Community Events February-March
January 22, 2010 By 4 Comments
February and March as busy months for Community events. There’s MySQL University, Fosdem, the Seattle MySQL Meetup & Confoo.ca.
