May 26, 2012

Comment: Benchmarking single-row insert performance on Amazon EC2

… free’ed again. XtraDB lets you accelerate the rate at which insert buffer pages are flushed to disk (innodb_ibuf_accel_rate… insert buffer flushing was enabled (using the FB patch, not XtraDB but difference should be similar)

Post: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release

… of the GA release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for… required to start work with Percona XtraDB Cluster Percona XtraDB Cluster is based on Percona Server with XtraDB and includes Write Set REPlication….1-beta2 State of the art: Galera – synchronous replication for InnoDB Happy clustering! mbgc=’f5f5f5′;ww=’320′;mbc=’cecece’;bbc=’3F79D5…

Post: XtraDB / InnoDB internals in drawing

I did some drawing exercise and put XtraDB / InnoDB internals in Visio diagram: The XtraDB differences and main parameters are marked out. PDF version is there http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/percona-xtradb:internals:start.

Post: XtraDB/InnoDB CPU bound benchmarks on 24cores server

… tasks there. The goal of benchmarks was investigation of InnoDB-plugin and XtraDB scalability in CPU-bound load. CPU specification: processor : 23… MySQL-5.1.30 with InnoDB plugin, Xtradb-1.0.2-1, and XtraDB-1.0.2-2 (rel2). XtraDB-rel2 has not been… grows up to 16 connections, but after that InnoDB-plugin is dropping down. XtraDB and XtraDB-rel2 seem quite better, I guess this…

Post: Impossible - possible, moving InnoDB tables between servers

… XtraBackup, now it can copy and prepare InnoDB/XtraDB tables, which later can be imported into XtraDB. To be objective the process is… on source. (on destination you should have XtraDB with innodb_expand_import extension and with innodb_expand_import=1 setting) 4) run alter… XtraDB innodb_expand_import available only in source code for now, you can get them from Launchpad projects https://launchpad.net/percona-xtradb

Post: InnoDB: look after fragmentation

…: 38530 InnoDB_IO_r_bytes: 631275520 InnoDB_IO_r_wait: 0.204893 # InnoDB_rec_lock_wait: 0.000000 InnoDB_queue_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_pages… you cannot really control it (tough it is possible in XtraDB / InnoDB-plugin with FAST INDEX creation) so be careful with queries… you can use Innodb_scan_pages_contiguous ; Innodb_scan_pages_jumpy statistics in 5.0-percona releases (coming to 5.1-XtraDB soon)

Post: Blob Storage in Innodb

… (used in before Innodb plugin and named “Antelope” in Innodb Plugin and XtraDB) Innodb would try to fit the whole row onto Innodb page. At… you’re interested to learn more about Innodb row format check out this page in Innodb docs: It is worth to note… well as long VARCHAR are handled same way by Innodb. This is why Innodb manual calls it “long columns” rather than BLOBs…

Post: Statistics of InnoDB tables and indexes available in xtrabackup

…`), KEY `from_message_id` (`from_message_id`,`link_id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=26141165 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; And size of file… new feature to address this is in XtraDB/InnoDB plugin – fast index creation. With this feature, InnoDB creates indexes by sort, so page… post – if you are badly missing some features in MySQL, InnoDB, InnoDB-plugin, XtraDB, XtraBackup – you know whom ask for!

Post: Speaking on San Francisco Meetup 14-Dec : What's new in XtraDB/InnoDB-plugin 5.1+

… coming SF Meetup on Dec-14 about new features in InnoDB in MySQL 5.1 and 5.5 and, what is…

Post: Announcing Percona XtraDB Storage Engine: a Drop-in Replacement for Standard InnoDB

… storage engine, “Percona XtraDB“, which is based on the InnoDB storage engine. It’s 100% backwards-compatible with standard InnoDB, so you can… forked from InnoDB-plugin-1.0.2. Percona XtraDB is released under GPL v2, as is InnoDB-plugin base source code. Percona XtraDB is… will also be using Percona XtraDB for its upcoming 5.1 builds. XtraDB is fully compatible with existing InnoDB tables and we are…