by Vadim Tkachenko | May 19, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
Returning to post Group commit and real fsync I made several experiments: I ran sysbench update_key benchmarks without —log-bin, with —log-bin, and with —log-bin and —innodb-support-xa=0 (default value is 1). Results (in transactions / sec)...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 10, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
As you might know Innodb storage engines uses Fuzzy Checkpointing technique as part of it recovery strategy. It is very nice approach which means database never needs to “stall” to perform total modified pages flush but instead flushing of dirty pages...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 3, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
During the recent months I’ve seen few cases of customers upgrading to MySQL 5.0 and having serious performance slow downs, up to 10 times in certain cases. What was the most surprising for them is the problem was hardware and even OS specific – it could...