Tag Archives: directio

Logs memory pressure

Posted on 2010/11/18 by

Warning, this may be kernel version specific, albeit this kernel is used by many database systems Lately I’ve been working on getting more memory used by InnoDB buffer pool – besides obvious things like InnoDB memory tax there were seemingly … Continue reading →

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Notes from land of I/O

Posted on 2008/08/11 by

A discussion on IRC sparkled some interest on how various I/O things work in Linux. I wrote small microbenchmarking program (where all configuration is in source file, and I/O modes can be changed by editing various places in code ;-), … Continue reading →

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