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Vadim TkachenkoIf you ever wondered how big is that or another index in InnoDB … you had to calculate it yourself by multiplying size of row (which I should add is harder in the case of a VARCHAR – since you need to estimate average length) on count of records. And it still would be quite […]
Inspired by NILFS: A File System to Make SSDs Scream and some customers asked if they should try NILFS on their SSD disks I decided to run quick tests to see how it performs. Installation on our Ubuntu 8.10 with SSD disk (Intel X25-E, 32GB) was pretty plain and I got partition with NILFS without […]
So during preparation of XtraDB template for EC2 I wanted to understand what IO characteristics we can expect from EBS volume ( I am speaking about single volume, not RAID as in my previous post). Yasufumi did some benchmarks and pointed me on interesting behavior, there seems several level of caching on EBS volume.
During preparation of Percona-XtraDB template to run in RightScale environment, I noticed that IO performance on EBS volume in EC2 cloud is not quite perfect. So I have spent some time benchmarking volumes. Interesting part with EBS volumes is that you see it as device in your OS, so you can easily make software RAID […]
If you do not follow MariaDB development, I want to head up XtraDB has been commited to MariaDB server and will be included in binary releases of MariaDB (scheduled on end of August – September) as replacement of InnoDB storage engine. MariaDB will also include PBXT storage engine, Sphinx storage engine and few our non-InnoDB […]
The feature I announced some time ago https://www.percona.com/blog/2009/06/08/impossible-possible-moving-innodb-tables-between-servers/ is now available in our latest releases of XtraBackup 0.8.1 and XtraDB-6. Now I am going to show how to use it (the video will be also available on percona.tv). Let’s take tpcc schema and running standard MySQL ® 5.0.83, and assume we want to copy order_line […]
In your recovery practice we often face the problem when data lost by execution DROP TABLE or DROP DATABASE statement. In this case even our InnoDB Data Recovery tool can’t help, as table / directory with files was deleted (if you have innodb-file-per-table). And the same for MyISAM, all .MYD / .MYI / .frm – […]
There was small delay in our releases, part of this time we worked on features I mentioned before: – Moving InnoDB tables between servers – Improve InnoDB recovery time and rest time we played with performance trying to align XtraDB performance with MySQL 5.4 ® and also port all performance fixes to 5.0 tree. So […]
Speed of InnoDB recovery is known and quite annoying problem. It was discussed many times, see: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=29847 http://dammit.lt/2008/10/26/innodb-crash-recovery/ This is problem when your InnoDB crashes, it may takes long time to start. Also it affects restoring from backup (both LVM and xtrabackup / innobackup) In this is simple test, I do crash mysql during in-memory […]
As you see MySQL is doing great in InnoDB performance improvements, so we decided to concentrate more on additional InnoDB features, which will make difference. Beside ideas I put before https://www.percona.com/blog/2009/03/30/my-hot-list-for-next-innodb-features/ (and one of them – moving InnoDB tables between servers are currently under development), we have few mores: – Stick some InnoDB tables / […]
With new updates of FusionIO drivers I was able to test it on our Dell R900 with Ubuntu 8.10 without pain of compiling drives myself and downgrading to older kernel, so I was decided to test it in strict_sync mode. As I understand FusionIO in default mode, like Intel SSD, is “lying” to application, and […]
Playing with TokuDB updates I noticed in SHOW PROCESSLIST unsual for MySQL State.
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mysql> show processlist; +----+------+-----------+--------+---------+------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info | +----+------+-----------+--------+---------+------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | 3 | root | localhost | sbtest | Query | 30 | Updated about 764000 rows | update sbtest set email=zip | ... mysql> show processlist; +----+------+-----------+--------+---------+------+----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info | +----+------+-----------+--------+---------+------+----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | 3 | root | localhost | sbtest | Query | 79 | Updated about 1900000 rows | update sbtest set email=zip | ... |
(Do not look in stupid UPDATE query, it’s just for testing 🙂 ) So looking in SHOW PROCESSLIST you can see progress of query execution. I would want to see it in standard MySQL and InnoDB more than all these triggers […]
For one our project I needed proxy solution, and mysql-proxy is one of well-known, so it was logical first choice. The obvious question which come in mind is what performance penalty we have using mysql-proxy, version 0.7.1. So it is easy to test. (By the way sysbench recently was pushed to Launchpad, see lp:sysbench, and […]
This is probably the feature I missed most from early days when I started to use InnoDB instead of MyISAM. Since that I figured out how to survive without it, but this is first question I hear from customers who migrated from MyISAM to InnoDB – can I just copy .ibd files from one server […]
We announce next version of our xtrabackup tool and we consider it stable enough to put label RC on it. Changelist includes: – use O_DIRECT by default for handling InnoDB files – use posix fadvise call to disable OS caching of copying files – disable recovery of double buffer Also we added binary builds for […]
Using xtrabackup for copying files can really saturate your disks, and that why we made special option
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to limit rate of IO per second. But it really works when you do local copy. What about stream backup ? Even you copy just to remote box with
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, read may be so intensive so […]
Sometimes when you do profiling you can see number like this in timestamps. Periodically in our patches there was Query_time: 18446744073709550.000 in slow.log file (well, it was fixed recently, but still appears in other places). I faced this problem several years ago when only 2-core AMD Opteron systems appeared and I noticed sysbench getting crazy […]
I want to make this Friday a bit more interesting – how do you feel to train a bit in InnoDB data recovery techniques. I have .ibd datafile which was created by query CREATE TABLE tryme ( email mediumblob, content mediumblob ) ENGINE=InnoDB … (SOME PARAMETERS SKIPPED) …; and I inserted one record into this […]
I do not know if you noticed it, but Google (Mark Callaghan, Justin Tolmer and their internal mysql-team) made a great contribution to MySQL. Patches global transaction IDs, binlog event checksums and crash-safe replication state are separated and published on Launchpad (https://code.launchpad.net/~jtolmer/mysql-server/global-trx-ids). For me it was a big wall in using these patches that they […]
Last week we were busy to align XtraDB performance with 5.4, now we have some results. Currently it is available as “hacks” to XtraDB (available on Lauchpad lp:~percona-dev/percona-xtradb/hacks-porting-tune if you are interested). Basically we took improvements from 5.4 and backported ones performance related to XtraDB. Here are results for tpcc-like workload, 100W (~10GB) ( raw […]