by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 30, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
MySQL is known for its stability but as any other application it has bugs so it may crash sometime. Also operation system may be flawed, hardware has problems or simply power can go down which all mean similar things – MySQL Shutdown is unexpected and there...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 29, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
“What cache hit rate is good for optimal MySQL Performance” is typical question I’m asked. It could by MyISAM key_buffer or Innodb innodb_buffer_pool it does not really matter. In both cases trying to come up with constant “good” hit rate...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 17, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
There were recently number of posts about MyISAM, for example Arjen wrote pretty nice article about MyISAM features so I thought I would share my own view on using MyISAM in production. For me it is not only about table locks. Table locks is only one of MyISAM...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 15, 2006 | Benchmarks
I’m continuing my experiments with different OS and today I tested FreeBSD 6.0 on my box. (more details about box and benchmark see here https://www.percona.com/blog/2006/06/13/quick-look-at-ubuntu-606/). Initially I was very pessimistic about FreeBSD, as...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 13, 2006 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs
Arjen posted a good note about MyISAM concurrent-insert features, though I should mention concurrent-insert can be cause of scalablity and peformance problems on SMP boxes, especially on queries processing range-queries. The reason of problems is POSIX read-write...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 13, 2006 | Benchmarks
There are a lot of talks around new coming Ubuntu 6.06, so I decided to make quick benchmarks. I used sysbench 0.4.6 oltp-read-only workload with 1000000 rows against InnoDB and MyISAM tables. Such workload is CPU-bound and allows to compare CPU / OS if we are using...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
Sometimes I see people thinking about buffers as “larger is always better” so if “large” MySQL sample configuration is designed for 2GB and they happen to have 16, they would simply multiply all/most values by 10 and hope it will work well....
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 26, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
As you know MyISAM does not cache data, only indexes. MyISAM assumes OS cache is good enough and uses pread/pwrite system calls for reading/writing datafiles. However OS is not always good in this task, my benchmarks show Linux/Solaris aren’t scalable on...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 13, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
MyISAM storage engine has key compression which makes its indexes much smaller, allowing better fit in caches and so improving performance dramatically. Actually packed indexes not a bit longer rows is frequent reason of MyISAM performing better than Innodb. In this...
