by Vadim Tkachenko | May 30, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
There are many questions how InnoDB allocates memory. I’ll try to give some explanation about the memory allocation at startup. Some important constants: NBLOCKS=count of block in innodb_buffer_pool = innodb_buffer_pool_size / 16384 OS_THREADS= if...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 29, 2006 | Benchmarks
We had discussion today which involved benchmarks of Join speed for MyISAM and Innodb storage engines for CPU bound workload, this is when data size is small enough to fit in memory and so buffer pool. I tested very simple table, having with about 20.000 rows in it on...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 27, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
Jeremy Cole recently posted very nice post about MySQL Replication Performance. There are however few points I should comment on. Jeremy Speaks about MyISAM and Innodb in the same terms, in fact they are quite different for Replication. As you probably know MyISAM...
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 Vadim Tkachenko | May 12, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
In MySQL 5.0.19 the meaning of innodb_thread_concurrency variable was changed (yeah, again). Now innodb_thread_concurrency=0 means unlimitied count of concurrent threads inside InnoDB. It’s logical, but there was long way. In MySQL versions below 5.0.8 for...
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 4, 2006 | Insight for Developers
At Users Conference Heikki did good presentation about Innodb planned features. I did not see some of big and tiny wishes listed so I was making notes. Here is what I’d like to see Packed indexes. In many cases then difference in Performace with MyISAM and...
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...
