The benefits of jemalloc versus glibc memory allocator for use with MySQL have been widely discussed. With jemalloc (along with Transparent Huge Pages disabled) there is less memory fragmentation, and thus more efficient resource management of the server memory. For MySQL 5.6, installing jemalloc is enough to enable it when starting the MySQL process. However, […]
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How scheduler and script stand in supporting failover (Percona and Marco example)
In part one of this series, I had illustrated how simple scenarios may fail or have problems when using Galera native support inside ProxySQL. In this post, I will repeat the same tests but using the scheduler option and the external script.
The Scheduler
First […]
How native ProxySQL stands in failover support (both v2.0.15 and v2.1.0)
In recent times I have been designing several solutions focused on High Availability and Disaster Recovery. Some of them using Percona Server for MySQL with group replication, some using Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC). What many of them had in common was the use of […]
If I ask you if running EXPLAIN on the query can change your database, you will probably tell me NO; it is common sense. EXPLAIN should show us how the query is executed, not execute the query, hence it can’t change any data.
Unfortunately, this is the case where common sense does not apply to […]
Kubernetes operators are meant to simplify the deployment and management of applications. Our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster serves the purpose, but also provides users the flexibility to fine-tune their MySQL and proxy services configuration.
The document Changing MySQL Options describes how to provide custom
my.cnf configuration to the operator. But what would […]
