May 26, 2012

Post: Aligning IO on a hard disk RAID – the Theory

the process when using pvcreate to initialize disk for LVM use, the two options you are interested in areare not aligned. Now it may be interesting to see what are real life effects of misalignment, my benchmark results are in the

Post: Using Flexviews - part two, change data capture

… systems. Provide data to “external triggers” such as Gearman jobs. CDC tools usually operate in one of the following … it a HUP signal. The script will drop a .pid file so you know what process to HUP. $ ./consumer_…11 fv$server_id: 999 c1: 1 c2: 1 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) As you can see, there are

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

what the operating parameters are. Can we suggest upgrades, rewriting queries, or whatnot? Sometimes there are rigid constraints on whatare the lowest common denominator. We often use tools to gather a lot of the data for us and speed the process, when possible, but the… 2.00GHz stepping : 11 cpu MHz…

Post: Shard-Query EC2 images available

the splitter. It is multi-threaded(actually multi-process) and is able to hash split up to 50GB/hour of input datawhat airline offered those flights and the flight number of the flight. Some data

Post: Flexviews - part 3 - improving query performance using materialized views

are created by FlexCDC. The refresh algorithm computes changes in multiple transactions. After each transaction it must wait for FlexCDC to processwhat the COMPLETE refresh method does during its operation. It also takes care of atomically* replacing the new contents of the view with the

Post: Compression for InnoDB backup

data having some new information. In current multi-core word the compression utility should utilize several CPU to speedup operation…1 and -5 for other tools) The raw results are available here http://spreadsheets…. but the speed of processing is too slow. What is interesting on Level 5 the

Post: Shard-Query turbo charges Infobright community edition (ICE)

data, compressed to about 2GB total data. then spread over six servers). Due to ICE limitations, the data was split before loading. The splitting/loading processthe from clause” are used. There are benefits with both “scale-up” and “scale-out”, but once again, the “scale-out” results are the

Post: Modeling MySQL Capacity by Measuring Resource Consumptions

… can use Innodb_data_reads , Innodb_data_writes, Innodb_os… system time consumed by the process. Collecting these at regular…operation per second which takes 4ms which adds up pretty well. We can also see what the…0 # pages distin 65 11.43M 1 18 6… ms. The queries which are in 100us range are ones where…

Post: Evaluating IO subsystem performance for MySQL Needs

… of what you should expect from the system. Whatare synchronous IO operation database performance which typically have rather close dataOperations performed: 773835 Read, 0 Write, 0 Other = 773835 Total Read 11.808Gb Written 0b Total transferred 11…see only 1 blocked process all the time which does…

Post: Using LVM for MySQL Backup and Replication Setup

operation systems. Veritas File System can do it for Solaris. Most SAN systems would work as well. WhatData . You should specify enough of undo space to hold modifications during backup process