Please join Percona’s Senior Technical Operations Architect Tim Vaillancourt as he presents Tuning MongoDB Consistency on April 12, 2017 at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Welcome to part two of Percona’s tuning series. In our previous webinar, we mentioned some of the best practices for MongoDB tuning. What if you […]
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Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured tutorial speakers blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the tutorial speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these tutorials can help you improve your database environment. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona […]
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Please join Percona Senior Technical Operations Architect Tim Vaillancourt on Wednesday December 14, at 10:00 am PST/ 1:00pm EST (UTC-8) as he presents MongoDB System Tuning Best Practices. People give much love to optimizing document design, provisioning, and even selecting an engine in MongoDB. They give little attention to tuning Linux to handle databases efficiently. In […]
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In this post, we’ll discuss tuning Linux for MongoDB deployments. By far the most common operating system you’ll see MongoDB running on is Linux 2.6 and 3.x. Linux flavors such as CentOS and Debian do a fantastic job of being a stable, general-purpose operating system. Linux runs software on hardware ranging from tiny computers like the […]
Read MoreIt seems these days if anyone knows anything about tuning InnoDB, it’s that you MUST tune your innodb_buffer_pool_size to 80% of your physical memory. This is such prolific tuning advice, it seems engrained in many a DBA’s mind. The MySQL manual to this day refers to this rule, so who can blame the DBA? The […]
Read MoreBecause most MySQL production systems probably run on Linux, I’ve decided to place the most important Linux tuning tips that will help improve MySQL performance. There is nothing new here, most of them are well known, however, I’ve decided to collect those Linux configuration tips into 1 blog post. Filesystem ext4 (or xfs), mount with […]
Read MoreSwapping has always been something bad for MySQL performance but it is even more important for HA systems. It is so important to avoid swapping with HA that NDB cluster basically forbids calling malloc after the startup phase and hence its rather complex configuration. Probably most readers of this blog know (or should know) about […]
Read MoreThis is a time-honored topic, and there’s no shortage of articles on the topic on this blog. I wanted to write a post trying to condense and clarify those posts, as it has taken me a while to really understand this relationship. Some basic facts Most of us know that writing into Innodb updates buffer […]
Read MoreThere are about a gazillion FAQs and HOWTOs out there that talk about XFS configuration, RAID IO alignment, and mount point options. I wanted to try to put some of that information together in a condensed and simplified format that will work for the majority of use cases. This is not meant to cover every […]
Read More“The least expensive query is the query you never run.” Data access is expensive for your application. It often requires CPU, network and disk access, all of which can take a lot of time. Using less computing resources, particularly in the cloud, results in decreased overall operational costs, so caches provide real value by avoiding […]
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