… bug tracker things ? Don’t you think it’s weird to have an open source software and hide bugs like that… Windows version. Sure, our production servers are under Linux, but our develoment computers are under Windows and I prefer to use MariaDB under Windows and Linux…
Comment: Review of Virident FlashMAX MLC cards
April 25, 2012 By 14 Comments
Actually, I’ve been using on Windows Platform, not Linux. I think this issue applies to any RAID-0 volume regardless of hardware… or tools to recover data from a RAID-0 and ignore the incomplete stripe, but that is my experience with Windows software Raid-0. Maybe some raid-0 is smart enough to ignore an incomplete stripe, rather…
Comment: Will Percona Support Drizzle ?
August 8, 2008 By 10 Comments
… always push people to move to Linux/Unix – is shop moving away from MS SQL for cost reason having no Linux experience but years of running large scale Windows based data centers can well stay with Windows.
Comment: eWeek tests OpenSource stacks and .NET
March 13, 2007 By 7 Comments
… problems with windows vs Linux for the rapid fire tests. As for the download time, when did it take you to download ANY…, not any Linux server I’ve ever used. Maybe they set things up to grab the wrong script or talk to the wrong database (maybe not a local database, but one on the windows box…
Comment: eWeek tests OpenSource stacks and .NET
July 23, 2006 By 7 Comments
… on Windows and Linux is at 95% same – installing PHP accelerator, using proper modules, configuring apache, MySQL Server configuration etc. Going deeper to… Windows while stock Apache+MySQL were used on Linux it could explain the difference. Speaking about threads… I would not expect it to…
Post: Where to get recent MySQL version ?
December 29, 2006 By 86 Comments
…. What is about Binaries ? As I mentioned some Linux distributions already include up to date MySQL versions, this obviously means binaries are available as well. If you’re using other Linux distribution, other Unix or Windows operation system you should ether build one yourself, find binaries from truster third party or hire someone, (for example us) to…
Post: Linux failing to boot screen on the plane
May 4, 2007 By 5 Comments
I’ve seen Windows Blue Screen of Death, stalled boot process or simply application …back from US on NorthWest Airbus A330 we got stalled Linux boot screen on the main display when we landed. This…penguin in the top left corner. It is always fun to learn what is inside of these closed systems via error…
Comment: How would you compress your MySQL Backup
June 10, 2008 By 29 Comments
… may benchmarks. But on some standalone boxes where I have to compress a large amount of data, I sometimes nice my process to a friendly level. Not sure if this really makes much… interesting tool called 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org/). Windows and Linux friendly. I’ve not benchmarked it for speed but the…
Comment: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0 Beta 1
February 8, 2012 By 11 Comments
It certainly helps – every paying customer who asks for something like this adds to the business case of investing in a polished Windows port. Of course… if you’re planning on switching to linux by the end of the year, you do have the possibility of beating us to it 
Comment: Thoughs on Innodb Incremental Backups
November 12, 2008 By 8 Comments
… into an existing system (no LVM required, no refactoring storage to make it work) 2. Very little performance overhead, reads at… an unlock, and it’s able to backup from there 6. Supports both windows and linux for a homogenous enviroment Things I don… (currently) @Brian – I’m suprised, they’re very quick to respond to technical problems, maybe sales is a different story, I’ll…
