MySQL Community Server 5.5.23 has been released

2012-04-13 Thread Hery Ramilison
Dear MySQL users, MySQL 5.5.23 is a new version of the 5.5 production release of the world's most popular open source database. MySQL 5.5.23 is recommended for use on production systems. MySQL 5.5 includes several high-impact enhancements to improve the performance and scalability of the MySQL D

Re: Commit commands with SELECT

2012-04-13 Thread Stephen Tu
Wrapping even just selects around a transaction absolutely matters, depending if you care about isolation. Consider the following two clients running on the same mysql instance, w/ --transaction_isolation=serializable. Suppose we have the following innodb table: CREATE TABLE FOO (i INTEGER, j INTE

Re: Commit commands with SELECT

2012-04-13 Thread Luis Motta Campos
Hello COMMIT statements may or may not force the database to call fflush() to flush your double-write to disk. This may or may not affect your performance, depending on your scale, traffic, and how much you're trying to squeeze your hardware. If you're working on the borderline like I am, benc

Re: FYI: how to prevent mysql from oom-killer

2012-04-13 Thread Reindl Harald
hm - my servers generally have no swap or better said only a 500 MB swap-file, they are all virtual machines in a ESXi cluster you really do not want a VM swapping this leads in unusaeable performance in my case the problem was another process eating up all memory by user-mistake and my hint is t

Re: FYI: how to prevent mysql from oom-killer

2012-04-13 Thread Johnny Withers
I had this same problem with the OOM for a while. Very frustrating to have to reboot a server to bring it back to life. I found out the OOM only ran when the swap file was about 99% full. The servers I had this problem on had 16GB and 24GB of ram, but only 2GB of swap. I increased the swap on the

Re: FYI: how to prevent mysql from oom-killer

2012-04-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.04.2012 15:47, schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: > On 04/13/2012 03:17 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> with one single command you can protect processes from get killed >> i started to run this every 15 minutes to make sure it is also >> active after restarts > > I understand your issue, but is

Re: FYI: how to prevent mysql from oom-killer

2012-04-13 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 04/13/2012 03:17 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: with one single command you can protect processes from get killed i started to run this every 15 minutes to make sure it is also active after restarts I understand your issue, but isn'there a configuration way to just limit the memory usage of MySQL

Re: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

2012-04-13 Thread Claudio Nanni
Hi you have to see the reason in the mysql log file, that is a file either in the datadir with .err extension or in the /var/log directory. tail the last 30 lines you will see the reason why it failed to start. Claudio 2012/4/11 Prabhat Kumar > did you check permission of file /var/run/mysqld/

FYI: how to prevent mysql from oom-killer

2012-04-13 Thread Reindl Harald
the following may be useful for most server systems OOM-killer acts if some process reclaims more and more memory and the kernel randomly kills unimportant tasks using hughe memory in case of a running mysqld the classification "unimportant" is nearly all time wrong and can cause hughe damage and

Re: Keynote videos from Percona Live MySQL Conference

2012-04-13 Thread Suresh Kuna
Thank you Baron, Much appreciated. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Baron Schwartz wrote: > If you were not at the Percona Live MySQL Conference over the last few > days, the keynote videos are recorded for your convenience. You can > see them at http://www.percona.tv/ > > Presentations will be

Re: Keynote videos from Percona Live MySQL Conference

2012-04-13 Thread Claudio Nanni
Thanks Baron! very much appreciated! Claudio 2012/4/13 Baron Schwartz > If you were not at the Percona Live MySQL Conference over the last few > days, the keynote videos are recorded for your convenience. You can > see them at http://www.percona.tv/ > > Presentations will be posted at http://