Thanks for correcting me in the disk stats Singer, A typo error of SSD instead of SAS 15k rpm.
Compression may not increase the memory requirements : To minimize I/O and to reduce the need to uncompress a page, at times the buffer pool contains both the compressed and uncompressed form of a database page. To make room for other required database pages, InnoDB may “evict” from the buffer pool an uncompressed page, while leaving the compressed page in memory. Or, if a page has not been accessed in a while, the compressed form of the page may be written to disk, to free space for other data. Thus, at any given time, the buffer pool may contain both the compressed and uncompressed forms of the page, or only the compressed form of the page, or neither. More details and benefits about the barracuda file format can be found in the below url Which helps to know the pros and cons on file format http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_antelope http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb/1.1/en/glossary.html#glos_barracuda http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/04/23/real-life-use-case-for-barracuda-innodb-file-format/ http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb/1.1/en/innodb-other-changes-file-formats.html I would go with the Singer suggestions in "What you want to do is" part. Thanks Suresh Kuna On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Singer X.J. Wang <w...@singerwang.com>wrote: > Comments: > 1) There is no such thing as 15K RPM SSDs... SSDs are NON ROTATIONAL > STORAGE, therefore RPMS make no sense.. > 2) Upgrading to Barracuda file format isn't really worth it in this case, > you're not going to get any real benefits. In your scenario I doubt InnoDB > table compression will help, as it will significantly increase your memory > requirements as it to keep uncompressed and compressed copies in RAM. > > Questions: > 1) Why are you putting your MySQL data on the same volume as your Bacula > backups? Bacula does large sequential I/O and MySQL will do random I/O based > on teh structure. > > What you want to do is: > > 1) you have 5MB InnoDB Log Files, that's a major bottleneck. I would use at > 256MB or 512MB x 2 InnoDB log files. > 2) dump and import the database using innodb_file_per_table so that > optimization will free up space.. > 3) are you running Bacula on the server as well? If so, decrease the buffer > pool to 1-2GB.. if not bump it up to to 3GB as you need some memory for > bacula > > and 4, this is the most important one: > How big is your MySQL data? Its not that big, I figure in the 80-100GB > range. Get yourself a pair of 240GB SSDs, mount it locally for MySQL. > > S > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 21:19, Suresh Kuna <sureshkumar...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I would recommend to go for a 15K rpm SSD raid-10 to keep the mysql data >> and >> add the Barracuda file format with innodb file per table settings, 3 to 4 >> GB >> of innodb buffer pool depending the ratio of myisam v/s innodb in your db. >> Check the current stats and reduce the tmp and heap table size to a lower >> value, and reduce the remaining buffer's and cache as well. >> >> > >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Maria Arrea <maria_ar...@gmx.com> wrote: >> >> > Hello >> > >> > I have upgraded our backup server from mysql 5.0.77 to mysql 5.5.15. We >> > are using bacula as backup software, and all the info from backups is >> stored >> > in a mysql database. Today I have upgraded from mysql 5.0 to 5.5 using >> IUS >> > repository RPMS and with mysql_upgrade procedure, no problem so far. >> This >> > backup systems hold the bacula daemon, the mysql server and the backup >> of >> > other 100 systems (Solaris/Linux/Windows) >> > >> > Our server has 6 GB of ram, 1 quad Intel Xeon E5520 and 46 TB of raid-6 >> > SATA disks (7200 rpm) connected to a Smart Array P812 controller & Red >> Hat >> > Enterprise Linux 5.7 x64. Our mysql has dozens of millions of lines, and >> we >> > are using InnoDB as storage engine for bacula internal data. We add >> hundred >> > of thousands lines /day to our mysql (files are incrementally backed up >> > daily from our 100 servers). So, we have a 7-8 concurrent writes (in >> > different lines, of course) , and theorically we only read from mysql >> when >> > we restore from backup. >> > >> > Daily we launch a cron job that executes an "optimize table" in each >> table >> > of our database to compact the database. It takes almost an hour. We are >> > going to increase the memory of the server from 6 to 12 GB in a couple >> of >> > weeks, and I will change my.cnf to reflect more memory. My actual my.cnf >> is >> > attached below: >> > >> > >> > These are my questions: >> > >> > >> > - We have real slow storage (raid 6 SATA), but plenty CPU and ram . >> Should >> > I enable innodb compression to make this mysql faster? >> > - This system is IOPS-constrained for mysql (fine for backup, though). >> > Should I add a SSD only to hold mysql data? >> > - Any additional setting I should use to tune this mysql server? >> > >> > >> > >> > my.cnf content: >> > >> > [client] >> > port = 3306 >> > socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock >> > >> > >> > [mysqld] >> > innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT >> > max_connections = 15 >> > wait_timeout = 86400 >> > port = 3306 >> > socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock >> > key_buffer = 100M >> > max_allowed_packet = 2M >> > table_cache = 2048 >> > sort_buffer_size = 16M >> > read_buffer_size = 16M >> > read_rnd_buffer_size = 12M >> > myisam_sort_buffer_size = 384M >> > query_cache_type=1 >> > query_cache_size=32M >> > thread_cache_size = 16 >> > query_cache_size = 250M >> > thread_concurrency = 6 >> > tmp_table_size = 1024M >> > max_heap_table = 1024M >> > >> > >> > skip-federated >> > innodb_buffer_pool_size= 2500M >> > innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 32M >> > >> > [mysqldump] >> > max_allowed_packet = 16M >> > >> > [mysql] >> > no-auto-rehash >> > >> > [isamchk] >> > key_buffer = 1250M >> > sort_buffer_size = 384M >> > read_buffer = 8M >> > write_buffer = 8M >> > >> > [myisamchk] >> > key_buffer = 1250M >> > sort_buffer_size = 384M >> > read_buffer = 8M >> > write_buffer = 8M >> > >> > [mysqlhotcopy] >> > interactive-timeout >> > >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > Maria >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks >> Suresh Kuna >> MySQL DBA >> > > -- > The best compliment you could give Pythian for our service is a referral. > > > -- Thanks Suresh Kuna MySQL DBA
