May 26, 2012

Comment: Testing Fusion-io ioDrive - now with driver 3.1

Rob, Easiest way – just put everything on the Fusion-io card. For more fine tuning it can be something more complex, but it is case-by-case.

Comment: Benchmarking single-row insert performance on Amazon EC2

Justin, I would be doing another benchmark and use ‘innodb_ibuf_accel_rate’ together with tuning other IO related parameters that I can tune to good affect, and I will post my results.

Comment: Choosing proper innodb_log_file_size

… location. VPS and shared hosting are unreliable in that context – tuning might work superb today, average tomorrow, and occasionally backfire too.

Comment: TPC-H Run on MySQL 5.1 and 6.0

Hi Peter, Re utilising multi cores, MySQL does claim to be capable of utilising multiple CPU cores. (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/faqs-general.html#qandaitem-B-1-1-8). Is that a different kind of assessment or different benchmarking? Cheers.

Post: Load management Techniques for MySQL

… these does help in many cases. Whatever powerful and well tuned system you have if you put too heavy of concurrent…

Post: Benchmarks challenges of XtraDB Cluster

… network communication between nodes also, and that makes a network tuning as the critical part of a cluster setup. This is…

Comment: Percona Announces New Relic Partnership

we’re working on it, Marcus! Stay tuned.

Comment: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – Replication

… under centos linux, we are had enough resource left, RAM, CPU in server. My question is: Does mysql enterprise edition helps…

Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0 GA

… can be done in a parallel way, thus utilizing multiple CPU cores if needed. In previous versions, compression was only possible…

Comment: ext4 vs xfs on SSD

… Throughput scales with thread count – each thread runs at 100% CPU utilsation, and XFS gets up to 3x as much throughput… million 4k overwrite IOPS to a single file when completely CPU bound… So, basically, XFS is still the filesystem you want…