June 19, 2013

Post: Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT

is similar to InnoDB but, depending on your database designed and the application, it can be faster. PBXT is…/O is optimal at this stage. This is ongoing work for PBXT… of data will become less and less important. What is the …data and (approximately) 32K pages for the table data. Both sizes can be set

Post: Sell-an-Elephant-to-your-Boss-HOWTO

…a good enough guess as the data is just way too far from you… to your manager or whoever sets project priorities and make it clear: “Our company isis your turn to show exactly how is it wasting that much money and what to …of work and indeed it is, however it is very rewarding as you focus on what is

Post: Using Flexviews - part two, change data capture

…for your benefit. This is followed by a description of FlexCDC, the change datais usually expensive. A change data capture tool can be used to implement an efficient way of refreshing them. What is Change Data… changes. The file is well commented. The example settings file should work for most MySQL…

Post: What to tune in MySQL Server after installation

… to work as MySQL DBAs or be involved with MySQL Performance in some way is to ask them what …MyISAM. MyISAM may work kind of OK with default key_buffer_size even with large data set but it will … and it is typically best to size your cache so it is large enough to keep most of your tables open…

Post: Tokyo Tyrant - The Extras Part I : Is it Durable?

is actually a global transaction and locks all write operations ( used for maintenance ).  What is missing here isis a performance hit here is an understatement.  The reason for this however is really how msync works

Post: Setting up XFS on Hardware RAID -- the simple edition

your available drives.  This is the easiest setup to configure and maintain and is….  Is it workis a set of mirrored drives, so the number here is num drives / 2. RAID 5: is…=2 data = bsize…is a complicated topic, and I’ve tried to temper the complexity with what will provide the most benefit.  What

Post: Recovery beyond data restore

is best done in binary mode for large data sets. Such global recovery can also put very high stress on youris R1Soft. Though I have not had a chance to look at it in details. What is about slave loss ? The slave loss is

Post: How fast can you sort data with MySQL ?

is the same for all platforms or data sets) – The optimal sort_buffer_size in this case was 70K-250K which isWhat do we learn from these results: Benchmark your application Unfortunately general tuning guidelines can be wrong for your

Post: Is disk Everything for MySQL Performance ?

… on the memory fit diagram – understanding your working set is paramount but taking number from other application is one of the worst mistakes you can… what is the most important. Assuming you have fixed amount of disk at your disposal and if you have BBU most likely data files is

Post: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions

…solution is best? What is really tricky with MySQL isis fairly fast at transferring data between the master and the slaves, there is a window of time where data loss is…HA solutions that work well with MyISAM … is your staff or support company? There is…depending on your project. For example, “setting