Archive for April, 2009
Percona Performance Conference EMT Presentation Slides
I sat down about 20 minutes ago to write a blog post that included a link to the slides of my EMT presentation. It turned into a long post about the presentation, how I feel EMT was received and my feelings on presentations in general. Here is the short post and the link to the [...]
MySQL Brings the Heat
This week throngs of MySQL developers, users, and enthusiasts descended on silicon valley. Apparently the valley’s cooling system can’t keep up because as they arrived the outside temperature went up into the 90s (32s for those of you who choose to use a sane temperature measurement system). I’m not attending the conference this year but [...]
Longest beta ever, myisamchk –parallel-recover
I was reading through the manual and noticed that myisamchk parallel recover option is still listed as beta code. The feature was added in 4.0.2 which was released in july 2002. This means it’s been in beta longer than gmail
Where did 5.0.79 enterprise come from?
While updating the mirror last week I was surprised to see that the newest MRU MySQL release is numbered 5.0.79. Previously enterprise releases had even numbers and community releases had odd numbers. I posted the question in #mysql-dev and HarrisonF was kind enough to explain it all.
MySQL 5.0 is running out of version numbers. There [...]
WTF is EMT?
EMT provides an easy way to gather common system performance metrics, as well as providing a simple plugin-based interface to collect custom application-specific metrics. This data can be viewed on the servers that are collecting it or, through the output handler interface, be sent to centralized servers.
I started building EMT because it was very [...]