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XtraDB Amazon Image

For those who use Amazon EC2 service and were anxious about having XtraDB ready to launch there is a good news. We created a public AMI (Amazon Machine Image) with XtraDB release 8 installed on CentOS 5.3. How to use it. First make sure it is avaiable.

Run it. It is built for x86_64 […]

xtrabackup-0.9.5rc

Dear Community, As of today release 0.9.5rc is available. In this release there are following changes: Changelog: Option –no-lock is added to innobackupex-1.5.1. Use it only while ALL your tables are InnoDB and you DO NOT CARE about binary log position of backup XtraBackup is ported for InnoDB Plugin 1.0.4. Barracuda file format as well […]

XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.4-8

Dear Community, We are glad to present you release 8 of XtraDB. The release includes following new features: The release is base on 1.0.4 version of InnoDB plugin. We thank Schooner Information Technology for sponsoring and testing the port of XtraDB to 1.0.4 MySQL 5.1.39 as a base release Fixed bugs: Bugs#413858: Crash from failed […]

5.0.86-build19 Percona binaries

Dear Community, As of today the 19-th build of MySQL server with Percona patches is available. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.86 Fix from Neil Katin to userstatv2.patch fix InnoDB slowness with large queries Fixed bugs in the build: Bug #413858 in Percona patches: “Crash […]

xtrabackup-0.9

Dear Community, The release 0.9 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download. Changelog: tar4ibd could not treat over 8GB file, now max 64GB prepare-speed-hack is added Fixed bugs: Bug #386179: “InnoDB: Error: space id in fsp header 143088, but in the page header 0” Bug #394374: “Can’t compile with […]

XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-7

Dear Community, Today we are announcing XtraDB release 7. This is the last release based on InnoDB plugin version 1.0.3, as you might know Innobase has released 1.0.4. The release includes following new features: MySQL 5.1.37 as a base release speed hack for buf_flush_insert_sorted_into_flush_list controlled by the new variable innodb_fast_recovery Fixed bugs: MySQL Bugs: #45357: […]

5.0.84-build18 Percona binaries

Dear Community, The 18-th build of MySQL server with Percona patches is available now. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.84 Fixed the issue with CLIENT_STATISTICS New patch innodb_recovery_patches.patch greatly improves recovery time Fixed bugs in the build: Bug #407117 in Percona patches: “any mysql-test fails […]

5.0.83-build17 Percona binaries

Dear Community, The build 17 of MySQL with Percona patches is available. New features in the release: MySQL-5.0.83 is taken as the basis The new patch innodb_use_sys_malloc.patch is added The new patch innodb_split_buf_pool_mutex.patch is added This patch splits the single global InnoDB buffer pool mutex into several mutexes for different purposes. This reduces mutex contention. […]

XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-6

Dear community, Today we are pleased to announce release 6 of XtraDB – the result of 2 months hard work. The release includes following new features: MySQL 5.1.36 as a base release New patch

Experimental adaptive checkpoint method estimate innodb_stats – the implementation of the fix forMySQL Bug#30423 expand-import Support of import InnoDB / […]

xtrabackup-0.8

Dear community, The release 0.8 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download. Key features: New mode of innobackupex –stream=tar4ibd; new command tar4ibd based on libtar-1.2.11 Experimental option –export is added (see Vadim’s post “Impossible – possible, moving InnoDB tables between servers”for details) tar4ibd is made to be sure that […]

5.0.77 / 5.0.82 -build16 Percona binaries

Dear community, We are pleased to announce the build16 of MySQL server® with Percona patches. Since the build13 there was a couple of customer specific releases, which explains cutover in numbering and a pause between the builds. Also we prepared build for both 5.0.77 and 5.0.82 versions. Since that time new patches were added: profiling_slow.patch […]

Impact of logging on MySQL’s performance

Introduction When people think about Percona’s microslow patch immediately a question arises how much logging impacts on performance. When we do performance audit often we log every query to find not only slow queries. A query may take less than a second to execute, but a huge number of such queries may significantly load a […]