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How to improve InnoDB performance by 55% for write-bound loads
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...
View ArticleWhy %util number from iostat is meaningless for MySQL capacity planning
Earlier this month I wrote about vmstat iowait cpu numbers and some of the comments I got were advertising the use of util% as reported by the iostat tool instead. I find this number even more useless...
View ArticleTokuDB tips: MySQL backups
In my recent post, “TokuDB gotchas: slow INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLES,” I saw a couple questions and tweets asking if we use TokuDB in production. Actually I mentioned it in that post and we also blogged...
View ArticleReference architecture for a write-intensive MySQL deployment
We designed Percona Cloud Tools (both hardware and software setup) to handle a very high-intensive MySQL write workload. For example, we already observe inserts of 1bln+ datapoints per day. So I wanted...
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MySQL 101: Monitor Disk I/O with pt-diskstats
Here on the Percona Support team we often ask customers to retrieve disk stats to monitor disk IO and to measure block devices iops and latency. There are a number of tools available to monitor IO on...
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Optimizing MySQL for Zabbix
This blog post was inspired by my visit at the annual Zabbix Conference in Riga, Latvia this year, where I gave a couple of talks on MySQL and beyond.It was a two day single-track event with some 200...
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InnoDB scalability issues due to tables without primary keys
Each day there is probably work done to improve performance of the InnoDB storage engine and remove bottlenecks and scalability issues. Hence there was another one I wanted to highlight:Scalability...
View ArticlePercona Server with TokuDB: Packing 15TB into local SSDs
Two weeks ago we released an Alpha release of Percona Server with TokuDB. Right now I am on a final stage of evaluation of TokuDB for using in our project Percona Cloud Tools and it looks promising....
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How to improve InnoDB performance by 55% for write-bound loads
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...
View ArticleWhy %util number from iostat is meaningless for MySQL capacity planning
Earlier this month I wrote about vmstat iowait cpu numbers and some of the comments I got were advertising the use of util% as reported by the iostat tool instead. I find this number even more useless...
View ArticleTokuDB tips: MySQL backups
In my recent post, “TokuDB gotchas: slow INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLES,” I saw a couple questions and tweets asking if we use TokuDB in production. Actually I mentioned it in that post and we also blogged...
View ArticleReference architecture for a write-intensive MySQL deployment
We designed Percona Cloud Tools (both hardware and software setup) to handle a very high-intensive MySQL write workload. For example, we already observe inserts of 1bln+ datapoints per day. So I wanted...
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MySQL 101: Monitor Disk I/O with pt-diskstats
Here on the Percona Support team we often ask customers to retrieve disk stats to monitor disk IO and to measure block devices iops and latency. There are a number of tools available to monitor IO on...
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Optimizing MySQL for Zabbix
This blog post was inspired by my visit at the annual Zabbix Conference in Riga, Latvia this year, where I gave a couple of talks on MySQL and beyond.It was a two day single-track event with some 200...
View ArticleUpdate on the InnoDB double-write buffer and EXT4 transactions
In a post, written a few months ago, I found that using EXT4 transactions with the “data=journal” mount option, improves the write performance significantly, by 55%, without putting data at risk. Many...
View ArticleUsing Cgroups to Limit MySQL and MongoDB memory usage
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...
View ArticleOptimizing PXC Xtrabackup State Snapshot Transfer
State Snapshot Transfer (SST) at a glancePXC 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...
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