June 19, 2013

Post: MySQL: what read_buffer_size value is optimal ?

… I’ve discovered even read_buffer_size selection may be less than obvious. What do we generally hear about read_buffer_size tuning ? If you want… value. Sample my.cnf values on large memory sizes recommend 1M settings and MySQL built-in default is 128K. Some people having… performanceread_buffer_sizeTime (sec)820045.216K44.832K45.664K43.4128K43.0256K51.9512K60.82M65.28M66.832M67.2 8200 bytes is the minimum size for read_buffer_size

Post: Ultimate MySQL variable and status reference list

…constantly referring to the amazing MySQL manual, especially the option and variable reference table. ….commanual range_alloc_block_sizeblogpercona.commanual read_buffer_sizeblogpercona.commanual read_onlyblogpercona.commanual read_rnd_buffer_sizeblogpercona.commanual relay_logblogpercona.commanual …

Post: What exactly is read_rnd_buffer_size

… for documentation for read_rnd_buffer_size you would find descriptions such as “The read_rnd_buffer_size is used after a sort, when reading rows in… had name very similar to read_buffer_size which is currently only used by MyISAM tables I thought read_rnd_buffer_size is also MyISAM only… length can be converted to fixed size (basically everything but BLOB/TEXT) MySQL can use read_rnd_buffer to optimize data retrieval – As data…

Post: Read Buffers, mmap, malloc and MySQL Performance

Monty Taylor posted interesting investigation of the fact read_buffer_size variable affects connection speed. This is not something you would … read buffers in the pool you could just grab one having allocation very quick. Also MySQL should get smarter in terms of which buffer size

Post: Multi Range Read (MRR) in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5

… N is the buffer size. In MySQL 5.6 the buffer size used by MRR can be controlled by the variable read_rnd_buffer_size, while MariaDB introduces a different variable to control the MRR buffer size mrr_buffer_size. Both buffer sizes default to 256K in MySQL 5…

Post: MySQL Server Variables - SQL layer or Storage Engine specific.

read_buffer_size, read_rnd_buffer_size – Variables used as read buffer for MyISAM tables for Full Table Scan (read_buffer) and for reading rows in sorted order (read_rnd_buffer_size

Post: Shard-Query EC2 images available

…socket=/tmp/mysql-inno.sock [mysqld] socket=/tmp/mysql-inno.sock default-storage-engine=INNODB innodb-buffer-pool-instances=2 innodb-buffer-pool-size=…0 partition=ON port=3306 read-buffer-size=512K read-rnd-buffer-size=1M skip-host-cache skip-name-resolve sort-buffer-size=512K sql-mode=STRICT_TRANS…

Post: MySQL 5.6.7-RC in tpcc-mysql benchmark

… two bugs: MySQL 5.6.7 locks itself on CREATE INDEX MySQL 5.6.7-rc crashed under tpcc-mysql workload But at… Specific options key_buffer_size = 8M read_buffer_size = 1M read_rnd_buffer_size = 4M bulk_insert_buffer_size = 8M myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M myisam_max_sort_file_size = 10G myisam_repair…

Post: MySQL Server Memory Usage

…_buffer_size, query_cache_size. If you’re using MyISAM seriously you can also add the size of Operation System cache you would like MySQL…, sorts, or need temporary tables as much as read_buffer_size, sort_buffer_size, read_rnd_buffer_size, tmp_table_size of memory might be allocated. But they are…

Post: Helgrinding MySQL with InnoDB for Synchronisation Errors, Fun and Profit

… not need much introduction, especially to the MySQL server developers. The Valgrind Memcheck tool, … are unprotected. These are buffer pool statistics counters: number of read, written, evicted, etc. pages… ==9090==  This conflicts with a previous read of size 8 by thread #14 ==9090==    at 0x6BC44E0…