by Aleksandr Kuzminsky | Aug 11, 2009 | Percona Software
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...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 10, 2009 | Insight for Developers
I will be presenting at upcoming MySQL Meetup at San Francisco this Thursday, August 13. I will talk about Sphinx covering the new cool features this search engine has as well as showing the demo on how simple it is to use Sphinx to implement high performance full...
by Morgan Tocker | Aug 4, 2009 | Percona Events
Today, we are announcing that we’re ready to offer training for InnoDB and XtraDB in Santa Clara and San Francisco. The course was developed by Morgan Tocker with input from all our team – and covers a lot of the performance problems we run through in...
by Aleksandr Kuzminsky | Jul 28, 2009 | Percona Software
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...
by Ryan Lowe | Jul 24, 2009 | Insight for Developers
Have you ever wondered how optimized your Memcached installation is? There is a common misconception that one doesn’t have to think too deeply about Memcached performance, but that is not true. If your setup is inefficient, you could: Burn Memory Waste Network...
by Ryan Lowe | Jul 13, 2009 | Percona Events
The Percona team has kept on expanding. We are very pleased to announce the addition of Morgan Tocker and Matt Yonkovit! Morgan has been with us for a while. Before joining Percona, Morgan worked as a Technical Instructor for MySQL (and then Sun Microsystems) in...
by Ryan Lowe | Jun 18, 2009 | Percona Events
Today marks the official launch of Percona.tv. We’ll be uploading technical screencasts, conference video, and anything else cool we can think up. If you’ve got ideas or requests, let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate!
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 21, 2009 | Percona Software
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...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 29, 2009 | Percona Software
We announce next beta version of our xtrabackup tool. Changelist includes: – set innodb_fast_shutdown=1 on xtrabackup shutdown – set innodb_write_io_threads=10 by default for fast buffer_pool flushing during recovery – build xtrabackup with...
by Evgeniy Stepchenko | Apr 8, 2009 | Percona Software
Today we glad to announce release 1.0.3-4 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements in this release: Move to MySQL 5.1.33 Move to InnoDB plugin 1.0.3 more reliable replication, innodb_overwrite_relay_log_info patch now included in the release fix...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 24, 2007 | Percona Events
The consulting load keeps increasing so we’re looking for some help. This job would be perfect for someone interested in high performance and scaling with decent knowledge of MySQL and eagerness to learn more. We do encourage people from all countries to...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 3, 2006 | Percona Events
Numerous talks at MySQL Users Conference and a lot of people asking me for my presentations motivated me to speed up launching of this site. I hope it will also motivate me to blog more frequently about performance as blog name implies. If you’re looking for...
