This post is a step-by-step guide to set up Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in a virtualized test sandbox. I used Amazon EC2 micro instances, but the content here is applicable for any kind of virtualization technology (for example VirtualBox). The goal is to give step by step instructions, so the setup process is understandable and [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-5
April 28, 2009 By 8 Comments
Today we glad to announce release 1.0.3-5 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements in this release: move to MySQL 5.1.34 removed rw_lock patch, so we now use Google’s rw_locks fix crash after upgrade 5.1.31 -> 5.1.33 fix mysql-test Percona XtraDB 1.0.3-5 available in source and several binary packages. XtraDB is [...]
XtraDB/InnoDB CPU bound benchmarks on 24cores server
December 29, 2008 By 6 Comments
One of our customers gave me a chance to run some benchmarks on 24-core (intel cpu based) server, and I could not miss it and ran few CPU-bound tasks there. The goal of benchmarks was investigation of InnoDB-plugin and XtraDB scalability in CPU-bound load.
MySQL Binaries Percona build10
December 11, 2008 By 12 Comments
We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 10 which include next fixes: We addressed concerns about potential logging and statistics overhead, so now you can fully turn on / off query statistics for microslow patch and user statistics in runtime. Next variables were added:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | | slow_query_log | ON | | slow_query_log_file | /var/lib/mysql/slow_query.log | for compatibility with MySQL 5.1 and | userstat_running | OFF | to control gathering of user statistics. |
With both slow_query_log = OFF and userstat_running = OFF [...]
Percona build7 with latest patches
November 14, 2008 By 26 Comments
We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 7 which include patches we recently announced. The -percona release includes:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | | innodb_check_defrag.patch | Session status to check fragmentation of the last InnoDB scan | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | The names are Innodb_scan_* | | userstatsv2.patch | SHOW USER/TABLE/INDEX statistics | V2 | Google | GPL | Added INFORMATION_SCHEMA.*_STATISTICS | | show_patches.patch | SHOW PATCHES | 1.0 | Jeremy Cole | N/A | | | innodb_io_patches.patch | Cluster of past InnoDB IO patches | 1.0 | Percona | GPL | This patch contains fixed (control_flush_and_merge_and_read, control_io-threads, adaptive_flush) | | innodb_show_hashed_memory.patch | Adds additional information of InnoDB internal hash table memories in SHOW INNODB STATUS | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | | innodb_io_pattern.patch | Information schema table of InnoDB IO counts for each datafile pages | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_IO_PATTERN | | microsec_process.patch | Adds INFOMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST with TIME_MS column | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | | innodb_locks_held.patch | Add locks held, remove locked records in SHOW INNODB STATUS | 1.0 | Baron Schwartz <baron@xaprb.com> | GPL | Bug #29126 fix | | microslow_innodb.patch | Extended statistics in slow.log | 1.1 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | | mysqld_safe_syslog.patch | Patch allows redirect output of error.log to syslog-ng | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | Ported from Debian | | innodb_fsync_source.patch | Information of fsync callers in InnoDB | 1.0 | Google | GPL | | | innodb_show_bp.patch | show innodb buffer pool content | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | |
and -percona-highperf release additionaly includes
1 2 | | split_buf_pool_mutex_fixed_optimistic_safe.patch | InnoDB patch to fix buffer pool scalability | 1.0 | Yasufumi Kinoshita | BSD | | | innodb_rw_lock.patch | Fix of InnoDB rw_locks | 1.0 | Yasufumi Kinoshita | BSD | |
You can download RPMs for RedHat / CentOS 4.x and 5.x for x86_64, binaries, sources and patches there
Improved InnoDB rw_lock patch
October 20, 2008 By 3 Comments
There is patch from Google to improve SMP performance , but for some workloads it showed for us reverse scalability. E.g. update_key benchmark from sysbench. There are also results with Yasufumi’s rw_locks (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=26442)
