This post has been written in collaboration with Nicolas Modalvsky of e-planning. Nicolas and I recently worked together on a tuning engagement involving MyRocks on MariaDB. While it is easy to find online articles and posts about InnoDB performance, finding information about MyRocks tuning is more difficult. Both storage engines are well documented but […]
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In this post, the third in a series explaining the internals of InnoDB flushing, we’ll focus on tuning. (Others in the series can be seen at InnoDB Flushing in Action for Percona Server for MySQL and Give Love to Your SSDs – Reduce innodb_io_capacity_max!)
Understanding the tuning process is very important since we don’t want to […]
As the second part of the earlier post Give Love to Your SSDs – Reduce innodb_io_capacity_max! we wanted to put together some concepts on how InnoDB flushing works in recent Percona Server for MySQL versions (8.0.x prior to 8.0.19, or 5.7.x). It is important to understand this aspect of InnoDB in order to tune […]
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The innodb_io_capacity and innodb_io_capacity_max are often misunderstood InnoDB parameters. As consultants, we see, at least every month, people setting this variable based on the top IO write specifications of their storage. Is this a correct choice? Is it an optimal value for performance? What about the SSD/Flash wear leveling?
Innodb_io_capacity 101
Let’s begin with what […]
If you do a quick web search about UUIDs and MySQL, you’ll get a fair number of results. Here are just a few examples:
Storing UUID and Generated Columns
Storing UUID Values in MySQL
Illustrating Primary Key models in InnoDB and their impact on disk usage
GUID/UUID Performance Breakthrough
To UUID or not to UUID?
So, does a well-covered topic […]
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