June 19, 2013

Post: Estimating Undo Space needed for LVM Snapshot

when it is the first time block is written to since snapshot was created. In this case single write is transformed toto get consistent binary logs in the backup and you do not want query log and general logs anyway. However DO place Innodb Log Files… physical volume – it does not have to be same 15K …

Post: The tool I've been waiting for years

to see what pages of file are cached in OS memory. This is really cool. When it comes to… it does not disturbs OS file cache by using mincore function to get pages …Innodb log files is practically uncached while other has about 1/3rd cached – this makes sense, perhaps second log file is being written

Post: Helgrinding MySQL with InnoDB for Synchronisation Errors, Fun and Profit

get an old value for quite some time after the store. Now of course it is extremely unfair to say about InnoDBfile_write (os0file.c:2172) ==9090==    by 0x6B35B5E: fil_io (fil0fil.c:4432) ==9090==    by 0x6B67EDA: log

Comment: Disaster: MySQL 5.5 Flushing

When NDB redo log file is full, it refuses to accept more transactions (returning error) until there is room again. When InnoDB log file is full, transactions getwritten into the redo log. The time it takes to dump contents of the in-memory database to

Post: MySQL Crash Recovery

innodb_log_file_size and innodbInnodb dictionary but .frm not created or not completely written. Partially written .frm files or .frm being unsync with internal Innodb dictionary may cause MySQL to

Post: Connecting orphaned .ibd files

file to another MySQL server. If you try to very often you’ll get an error in the log: InnoDBwritten to every InnoDB page. An .ibd file can be huge, while ibdata1 is usually smaller. Thus, it is easier to modify space_id in InnoDB

Post: MVCC: Transaction IDs, Log Sequence numbers and Snapshots

Log Sequence Numbers correspond to given position in the log files and typically incremented for each log record. Innodb uses number of bytes ever written to the log files

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

InnoDB page You don’t need to do anything to align InnoDB pages – file system takes care of it (assuming you configure the fileto know these. Stripe unit size is the amount of data that will be written to single disk before skipping to

Post: Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT

gets its own snapshot of the database. And write locks are not acquired whenwritten by the Writer to disk. It is also responsible for writing consistent snapshots of the index files to disk. The frequency of checkpoints, as with other engines like InnoDB, determines the recovery time. Does

Post: High-Performance Click Analysis with MySQL

when things get big.  And even if it’s read-only, there’s still another reason to use InnoDBfile and import that with LOAD DATA INFILE.  Keep those big fat log filesto parallelize.  As you know, MySQL doesn’t do intra-query parallelization, so ETL jobs written to rely on SQL tend to get