This is the second part in a two-part series comparing Virident’s vCache to FlashCache. The first part was focused on usability and feature comparison; in this post, we’ll look at some sysbench test results. Disclosure: The research and testing conducted for this post were sponsored by Virident. First, some background information. All tests were conducted [...]
Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB
May 7, 2013 By 29 Comments
After compiling Percona Server with TokuDB, of course I wanted to compare InnoDB performance vs TokuDB. I have a particular workload I’m interested in testing – it is an insert-intensive workload (which is TokuDB’s strong suit) with some roll-up aggregation, which should produce updates in-place (I will use INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statements [...]
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 [...]
New variable slave_max_allowed_packet for slave servers
July 24, 2012 By 2 Comments
One month ago I wrote about how a big read_buffer_size could break the replication. The bug is not solved but now there is an official workaround to ease this problem using a new configuration variable: slave_max_allowed_packet This new variable will be available in 5.1.64, 5.5.26, and 5.6.6 and can establish a different limit on the [...]
read_buffer_size can break your replication
June 6, 2012 By 12 Comments
There are some variables that can affect the replication behavior and sometimes cause some big troubles. In this post I’m going to talk about read_buffer_size and how this variable together with max_allowed_packet can break your replication. The setup is a master-master replication with the following values: max_allowed_packet = 32M read_buffer_size = 100M To break the [...]
Percona Live: Venu Anuganti; early bird registration expires tomorrow
January 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today we are announcing Venu Anuganti as a guest speaker to Percona Live: San Francisco. Venu works as a Data architect, evaluating and implementing high performance SQL/NoSQL data store solutions for large scale OLTP and OLAP infrastructure; and previously worked as a database kernel engineer at companies like SolidDB, MySQL, ANTs Data Server and Yahoo! [...]
Ultimate MySQL variable and status reference list
January 8, 2011 By 4 Comments
I am constantly referring to the amazing MySQL manual, especially the option and variable reference table. But just as frequently, I want to look up blog posts on variables, or look for content in the Percona documentation or forums. So I present to you what is now my newest Firefox toolbar bookmark: an option and [...]
table_cache negative scalability
November 16, 2009 By 23 Comments
Couple of months ago there was a post by FreshBooks on getting great performance improvements by lowering table_cache variable. So I decided to investigate what is really happening here. The “common sense” approach to tuning caches is to get them as large as you can if you have enough resources (such as memory). With MySQL [...]
How much memory can MySQL use in the worst case?
February 12, 2009 By 17 Comments
I vaguely recall a couple of blog posts recently asking something like “what’s the formula to compute mysqld’s worst-case maximum memory usage?” Various formulas are in wide use, but none of them is fully correct. Here’s why: you can’t write an equation for it.
MySQL: what read_buffer_size value is optimal ?
September 17, 2007 By 25 Comments
The more I work with MySQL Performance Optimization and Optimization for other applications the better I understand I have to less believe in common sense or common sense of documentation writers and do more benchmarks and performance research. I just recently wrote about rather surprising results with sort performance and today I’ve discovered even read_buffer_size [...]
