…to open hardware, to repurposing existing hardware to upcoming challenges for the kernel to howto be a better sysadmin. In fact… for those who…is going to be the default filesystem in a number of places over the next few years, time to…
Comment: New MySQL Community Release Policies published
November 8, 2007 By 9 Comments
…these comments, it seems to me that nobody seems to understand the simplicity of a stable branches being truly …next development version (5.1? 6.0?) No way should such a change be applied to 5.0, which is… of people I know who‘ve now done the same. The sloppy approach to patching stable versions, and …
Post: High Availability Deep Dive tutorial at PLMCE
April 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
… be co-presenting next Tuesday a tutorial on the topic. It is never too late to register! For the ones who are already registered, here’s advance information which you will find useful. As our tutorial is going to be highly interactive, every attendee will have the opportunity to follow along with Florian and me as we walk…
Comment: Percona Replication Manager, a solution for MySQL high availability with replication using Pacemaker
February 3, 2012 By 102 Comments
… code again next week, maybe it’ll get more clear to me, .. for me to understand it a bit more, can you answer me these questions… readerOK and writerOK? readerOK = 0 means that a server is not allowed to run a reader_vip or that it doesn’t have a reader_vip? (same for writer i assume) Where is decided on who get’s to have the writerVIP?
Comment: Disaster: MySQL 5.5 Flushing
September 23, 2011 By 27 Comments
… has a support group for people who tell me things that I then forget. But this stall is really bad regardless. And suggestion…. Each time this search restarts it has to scan more of the list to find the next dirty page. Comments in buf_flush_batch match my understanding: /* Note that after finding a single flushable page, we try to…
Post: Percona Replication Manager, a solution for MySQL high availability with replication using Pacemaker
November 29, 2011 By 102 Comments
… the use of a private network for replication if needed. Next is the mysql primitive resource declaration. This primitive defines the mysql… I’ll skip detailed description. The next interesting element is the master-slave “ms” declaration. This is how Pacemaker defines an asymmetrical resource… the VIPs is the truly new thing in the resource agent. I am grateful to Florian Haas who told me to use node attributes to avoid…
Post: Data mart or data warehouse?
July 15, 2010 By 14 Comments
…(ETL), and schema management tools. To me, the definition of data warehouse is “A relational database schema which … first methodology was popularized by Bill Inmon, who is considered by many to be the “father” of the data… features to MySQL as well, but that is a topic for a later post. In the next …
Post: Sphinx 0.9.8 is released just in time for OSCON 2008
July 20, 2008 By 2 Comments
…to Be the Next $1B Acquisition) which is pretty cool. At Percona we actively support Sphinx as in our opinion it is great complement to…who 700663 1250ms 664ms Extended2 mode also offers choice of “ranking modes” – if you would like to use BM25 ranking (similar to…
Post: Choosing innodb_buffer_pool_size
November 3, 2007 By 39 Comments
…bit too much, so let me write a bit better description. Innodb Buffer Pool is by far the most …make sure to leave space for other MySQL needs while factoring this in. The next step would be to decide … people think – who cares if some of buffer pool is swapped out, I would have one IO to fetch page if…
Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – News from the Committee – Tutorial Selection Complete
December 3, 2012 By 1 Comment
… Live London is raging in the UK, I thought it fitting to remind everyone about the next big Percona Live…, and I don’t have time to laud them all, so let me give you a few (highly biased… colleagues: Liz, Fred, and Kenny: who are fantastic presenters and trainers. This is one of 3 tutorials that …
