Update: do not do this, this has been proven to corrupt data!
During April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014, I attended a talk on MySQL 5.7 performance an scalability given by Dimitri Kravtchuk, the Oracle MySQL benchmark specialist. He mentioned at some point that the InnoDB double write buffer was a real performance […]
“Best Practices for MySQL Scalability.”
If you have not already done so, I encourage you to register for my “Best Practices for MySQL Scalability” Webinar which will take place on May 1st at 10 a.m. PST. This will be an overview presentation, led by me and providing a high-level look at the components of MySQL […]
Since DTrace was released for Solaris I am missing it on Linux systems… It can’t be included in Linux by the same reason why ZFS can’t be – it’s licensing issue. Both ZFS and DTrace are under CDDL, which is incompatible with GPL. So you can see DTrace and ZFS on Solaris, FreeBSD, MacOS, […]
Read moreI mentioned earlier that IO scheduler CFQ coming by default in RedHat / CentOS 5.x may be not so good for MySQL. And yesterday one customer reported that just changing cfq to noop solved their InnoDB IO problems. I ran tpcc scripts against XtraDB on our Dell PowerEdge R900 server (16 […]
Read moreOne of our customers reported strange problem with MySQL having extremely poor performance when sync-binlog=1 is enabled, even though the system with RAID and BBU were expected to have much better performance.
The problem could be repeated with SysBench as follows:
Shell
./sysbench –num-threads=2 –test=oltp –oltp-test-mode=complex –oltp-table-size=100000 –oltp-distinct-ranges=0 –oltp-order-ranges=0 –oltp-sum-ranges=0 –oltp-simple-ranges=0 –oltp-point-selects=0 –oltp-range-size=0 –mysql-table-engine=innodb […]
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