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Yasufumi Kinoshita
Yasufumi is a former Percona employee. Yasufumi is one of the foremost InnoDB experts in the world, and has been researching and improving InnoDB internals for years. He is the original author of the first InnoDB scalability enhancements and has developed many improvements to InnoDB's internal algorithms such as flushing, locking, and recovery.

Tuning for heavy writing workloads

For the my previous post, there was comment to suggest to test db_STRESS benchmark on XtraDB by Dimitri. And I tested and tuned for the benchmark. I will show you the tunings. It should be also tuning procedure for general heavy writing workloads. At first, <tuning peak performance>. The next, <tuning purge operation> to stabilize […]

Which adaptive should we use?

As you may know, InnoDB has 2 limits for unflushed modified blocks in the buffer pool. The one is from physical size of the buffer pool. And the another one is oldness of the block which is from the capacity of transaction log files. In the case of heavy updating workload, the modified ages of […]

Adaptive checkpointing

Do you know that there are two limits about dirty (modified but not flushed to disk) blocks of InnoDB buffer pool? One is the limit of “amount”. The other is the limit of “age”. — limit of “amount” — As you know, buffer pool of InnoDB works as write-back cache of its datafiles. If the […]