June 20, 2013

Comment: Percona Replication Manager, a solution for MySQL high availability with replication using Pacemaker

… error : Start tag expected, ‘<' not found ^ I/O error : Invalid seek * rc=1: Your agent produces meta-data which does not…

Comment: Benchmarks of new innodb_flush_neighbor_pages

… likely to be physically close and as such no disk seeks is likely to be required (for single drive). Yet it…

Post: Improved InnoDB fast index creation

… method, because it does not have to do random disk seeks to fetch secondary index pages to the buffer pool. A…

Comment: What's the recommended MySQL version?

… about 55% down while improving perf due to less disk seeks) You can also get support directly for MySQL, regardless of…

Post: Optimizing slow web pages with mk-query-digest

… is used during execution of a request. If you are seeking to reduce the load on the database server and [as…

Comment: InnoDB Flushing: a lot of memory and slow disk

… slow to move it a track or two as to seek far across the disk. Maybe someone else knows and can…

Comment: InnoDB Flushing: a lot of memory and slow disk

… slow to move it a track or two as to seek far across the disk. Maybe someone else knows and can…

Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent

… you could call an “informational” partnership. For example, we sometimes seek out or respond to requests from vendors who want to…

Post: Virtualization and IO Modes = Extra Complexity

… per second as even in case there is no disk seek we need to wait for disk head to make a…

Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS

… very high proportion of random IO and hence the disk seek time becomes much more performance relevant than throughput.