(This is part one of a two part series) Over the past few weeks I have been looking at a preview release of Virident’s vCache software, which is a kernel module and set of utilities designed to provide functionality similar to that of FlashCache. In particular, Virident engaged Percona to do a usability and feature-set [...]
Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1
April 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Drizzle team has published the first Drizzle 7.1 stable release. The announcement on the Drizzle blog covers some of the major improvements in this release over the previous stable release, Drizzle 7.0. I plan to write a variety of blog posts on each of the new features over the coming weeks. Major features include: Multi [...]
Percona Server 5.1.49-rel12.0
September 15, 2010 By 6 Comments
Dear Community, Starting with this release, we introduce a new release model for Percona Server. From now on, we will have both Stable and Release Candidate releases. Release Candidates will introduce new features not yet available in Stable releases. Along with new features, our new 5.1.49-12.0 RC contains a couple of patches from the Facebook-MySQL [...]
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
New patches, new builds
September 5, 2008 By 24 Comments
We made new patches, improved previous and want to announce new builds for 5.0.62, 5.0.67 and 5.1.26 versions. One of biggest changes we separated releases of 5.0 into two branches. First, just “-percona” release is more stable and contains only stable and proven on many installation patches. Second is “-percona-highperf” release, which contains experimental patches [...]
Heikki Tuuri answers to Innodb questions, Part II
November 4, 2007 By 13 Comments
I now got answers to the second portions of the questions you asked Heikki. If you have not seen the first part it can be found here. Same as during last time I will provide my comments for some of the answers under PZ and will use HT for original Heikkis answer. Q26: You also [...]
