…MySQL replication is asynchronous. What about semi-sync MySQL replication? It’s actually much worse than Galera. As I illustrated in a…in the local apply queue on their nodes will get a deadlock…
Post: Understanding Multi-node writing conflict metrics in Percona XtraDB Cluster and Galera
…-node writing causes unexpected deadlocks in PXC, at least, it is unexpected unless you know how Galera replication works. This is a complicated topic… the: Total number of local transactions that failed certification test. What is a local certification test? It’s quite simple: On COMMIT…
Post: How to Monitor MySQL with Percona's Nagios Plugins
… papers, you’ll see a pretty extensive list of suggestions for what to monitor in MySQL. Those are only suggestions; …deadlocks. Deadlocks (and lock wait timeouts, covered in another plugin) are frequent causes of serious errors in applications because the applications often don’t handle deadlocks…
Post: Logging Foreign Key errors
…in order to have historical data. pt-fk-error-logger This is a tool very similar to pt-deadlock… to know what the problem is. 4- Let’s check what the tool has logged: mysql> select * …causes the error was: mysql> ALTER TABLE employees DROP PRIMARY KEY; Conclusion If you are having too many deadlock…
Post: A quest for the full InnoDB status
…in very long execution times for even simplest queries, or a huge deadlock. In…in MySQL data directory. Unfortunately this is a startup time parameter, so unless you set it early, it will not be available in…what MySQL…
Post: SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through
… kinds of other things. In MySQL 5 number of Innodb performance counters were exported and now available in SHOW STATUS output. …a ;; *** WE ROLL BACK TRANSACTION (2) For last deadlock Innodb shows transactions which caused deadlocks, their state during deadlock, what locks they were holding and what…
Post: Test Drive of Solid
…a deadlock. Test 2: SELECT FOR UPDATE: mysql> begin; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql…what we’ll see in final version. Current behavior is however very different from Innodb in…
Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.5
…. This option specifies from what extra file to read the default MySQL options before the standard defaults… or stream in very small chunks which in return caused inefficient I/O. Fixed by using a 1M …t re-remove the suspend file, leading to a wait deadlock. Fixed by removing the stale xtrabackup_…

