While the PMM team works hard on our PMM 2.0 release, we have been working on a few things in the background which we’d like to show off ! In particular we have developed a new dashboard that displays metrics related to memory usage on Linux systems. The dashboard leverages information collected by node_exporter. The graphs […]
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In this post we will review the most important Linux settings to adjust for performance tuning and optimization of a MySQL database server. We’ll note how some of the Linux parameter settings used OS tuning may vary according to different system types: physical, virtual or cloud. Other posts have addressed MySQL parameters, like Alexander’s blog MySQL […]
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Troubleshooting crashes is never a fun task, especially if MySQL does not report the cause of the crash. For example, when MySQL runs out of memory. Peter Zaitsev wrote a blog post in 2012: Troubleshooting MySQL Memory Usage with a lots of useful tips. With the new versions of MySQL (5.7+) and performance_schema we have […]
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Since MySQL 5.7.5, we have been able to resize dynamically the InnoDB Buffer Pool. This new feature also introduced a new variable — innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size — which defines the chunk size by which the buffer pool is enlarged or reduced. This variable is not dynamic and if it is incorrectly configured, could lead to undesired […]
Read moreThere 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 (innodb_buffer_pool_size >= 1000Mb) = 50000
else if (innodb_buffer_pool_size >= 8Mb) = 10000
else = 1000 (it’s true for *nixes, for Windows there is a bit […]
Every so often people ask me the question how should they estimate memory consumption by MySQL Server in given configuration. What is the formula they could use.
The reasons to worry about memory usage are quite understandable. If you configure MySQL Server so it uses too small amount of memory it will likey perform suboptimally. […]
