May 26, 2012

Post: Load management Techniques for MySQL

One of the very frequent cases with performance problems with MySQL is what they happen every so often or certain times. Investigating them we find out what the cause is some batch jobs, reports and other non response time critical activities are overloading the system causing user experience to …

Comment: Percona Server 5.5.23-25.3 released!

@ James Ubuntu Precise (12.04 LTS) will be officially supported with the next Percona Server releases. Percona Server 5.5.24-26.0 is currently scheduled for release in the first week of June.

Post: Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool

… ever delayed a project’s schedule because the release involved an ALTER, which had to be scheduled in the dead of the…

Post: Percona MySQL Training Schedule for May, June, & July

Over the coming three months, Percona will be holding our highly acclaimed MySQL courses in the following cities: Dallas, Texas – May 14 – 17, 2012 London, England – May 21 – 24, 2012 Orlando, Florida – June 11 – 14, 2012 Raleigh, North Carolina – June 18 – 21, 2012 Boston, Massachusetts - July 9 -…

Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo Was A Great Event

… limitations: the conference is a day longer and isn’t scheduled to conflict with Easter and Passover, and we have a…

Comment: How We Got Here

… floor. It comes from many things, small like having the schedule printed in color instead of just black, and the nice…

Post: BOFs and Lightning Talks Announced for Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo

… Exhibit Hall during the Community Networking Reception. Check the conference schedule for more details on times and locations. The conference room…

Post: ext4 vs xfs on SSD

…. I would still use value 2 or 4, to avoid scheduling overhead from single thread, but it does not seem critical…

Post: Linux IO Schedulers and MySQL

… IO Schedulers today which is quite interesting. It goes in details about schedulers and explains in which of workloads which of schedulers is… means unless you really know mapping between kernel versions and scheduler versions it is very hard to evaluate benchmark results. This… not really significant. This article also points out benchmarking IO schedulers you should look at more numbers than aggregate bandwidth – you…

Post: Schedule for MySQL Conference 2012 is Published

I am pleased to announce the schedule for Percona Live: MySQL Conference And Expo 2012 is now … this year who has done a great job getting the schedule together. I can’t thank them enough ! See you in…