by Andrew Moore | Sep 3, 2015 | MySQL
After some recent work with systemd I’ve realized it’s power and I can come clean that I am a fan. I realize that there are multitudes of posts out there with arguments both for and against systemd but let’s look at some nice ways to have systemd...
by Tom Diederich | Sep 1, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
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by Jay Janssen | Aug 31, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
There can be a lot of confusion and lack of planning in Percona XtraDB Clusters in regards to nodes becoming desynchronized for various reasons. This can happen a few ways: An IST or SST joining node catching up after a state transfer (Joined/Joining state) Using...
by Jay Janssen | Aug 20, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
State Snapshot Transfer (SST) at a glance PXC uses a protocol called State Snapshot Transfer to provision a node joining an existing cluster with all the data it needs to synchronize. This is analogous to cloning a slave in asynchronous replication: you take a full...
by Tom Diederich | Aug 13, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
Storage. Everyone needs it. Whether your data is in MySQL, a NoSQL, or somewhere in the cloud, with ever-growing data volumes – along with the need for SSDs to cut latency and replication to provide insurance – an organization’s storage footprint is an...
by Jay Janssen | Aug 5, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
IST Basics State transfers in Galera remain a mystery to most people. Incremental State transfers (as opposed to full State Snapshot transfers) are used under the following conditions: The Joiner node reports Galera a valid Galera GTID to the cluster The Donor node...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 3, 2015 | MongoDB, MySQL
In my recent benchmarks for MongoDB, we can see that the two engines WiredTiger and TokuMX struggle from periodical drops in throughput, which is clearly related to a checkpoint interval – and therefore I correspond it to a checkpoint activity. The funny thing...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jul 30, 2015 | MySQL
Lately, I saw many cases when users specified the option --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS to print out a statement representation of row events in MySQL binary logs just to get nothing. Reason for this is obvious: option --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS does not convert row...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 24, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
Previously I tested Tokutek’s Fractal Trees (TokuMX & TokuMXse) as MongoDB storage engines – today let’s look into the MySQL area. I am going to use modified LinkBench in a heavy IO-load. I compared InnoDB without compression, InnoDB with 8k...
by Stephane Combaudon | Jul 22, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
I recently worked with a customer who had a weird issue: when their MySQL server was started (Percona Server 5.5), if they try to run service mysql start a second time, the init script was not able to detect that an instance was already running. As a result, it tried...
by Kortney Runyan | Jul 20, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live Data Performance Conference in Amsterdam is just two months away and it’s going to be an incredible event. With a new expanded focus on MySQL, NoSQL, and Data in the Cloud, this conference will be jam-packed with talks from some of the industry’s...
by Jay Janssen | Jul 16, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
In my previous post, I used incremental backups in Percona XtraBackup as a method for rebuilding a Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) node without triggering an actual SST. Practically this reproduces the SST steps, but it can be handy if you already had backups available...
by Jay Janssen | Jul 16, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
Beware the SST In Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) I often run across users who are fearful of SSTs on their clusters. I’ve always maintained that if you can’t cope with a SST, PXC may not be right for you, but that doesn’t change the fact that SSTs with...
by Tom Diederich | Jul 9, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The conference and tutorial schedule for Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23 in Amsterdam, was published this morning and this year’s event will focus on MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud. Conference sessions, which will follow each morning’s keynote addresses,...
by Roel Van de Paar | Jul 7, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 3: “Debugging: GDB, Backtraces, Frames and Library Dependencies” In this episode you’ll learn how to use debugging tool GDB. The following debugging topics are covered: 1. GDB Introduction 2. Backtrace, Stack trace 3. Frames 4....
by Jay Janssen | Jul 6, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
I noticed that in the latest release of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), the behavior of wsrep_OSU_method changed somewhat. Prior to this release, the variable was GLOBAL only, meaning to use it you would: mysql> set GLOBAL wsrep_OSU_method='RSU'; mysql> ALTER...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 1, 2015 | MongoDB, MySQL
Quite often, especially for benchmarks, I am trying to limit available memory for a database server (usually for MySQL, but recently for MongoDB also). This is usually needed to test database performance in scenarios with different memory limits. I have physical...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jun 30, 2015 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Like any good, thus lazy, engineer I don’t like to start things manually. Creating directories, configuration files, specify paths, ports via command line is too boring. I wrote already how I survive in case when I need to start MySQL server (here). There is...
by Roel Van de Paar | Jun 26, 2015 | Security
In a recent article on the Percona blog, I recommended readers to a tool called CamStudio for making technical screen recordings. The blog post was very popular and got 300+ Facebook likes in a short time. Providentially though, a reader commented that the installer...
by Stephane Combaudon | Jun 23, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
A question I often hear when customers want to set up a production PXC cluster is: “How many nodes should we use?” Three nodes is the most common deployment, but when are more nodes needed? They also ask: “Do we always need to use an even number of...
