Planet MariaDB Server

Playing with recent bpftrace and MariaDB 10.5 on Fedora – Part IV, Creating a New Tool for Tracing Time Spent in __lll_lock_wait

So far in this series I am just trying to find out what can be done with bpftrace and how to get interesting insights or implement something I was asked…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-28

Playing with recent bpftrace and MariaDB 10.5 on Fedora – Part III, Creating a New Tool for Tracing Mutexes

I had some free time yesterday to do some more tests on Fedora, so I’ve got back to the old request for one of MariaDB developers that I first mentioned…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-27

Playing with recent bpftrace and MariaDB 10.5 on Fedora – Part III, Creating a New Tool for Tracing Mutexes

I had some free time yesterday to do some more tests on Fedora, so I’ve got back to the old request for one of MariaDB developers that I first mentioned…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-27

What mysql_upgrade really does in MariaDB, Part II, Bugs and Missing Features

Both /proc sampling and bpftrace are cool topics to write about, but I should not forget my third upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2021 in less than 2 weeks, “Upgrading to…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-26

What mysql_upgrade really does in MariaDB, Part II, Bugs and Missing Features

Both /proc sampling and bpftrace are cool topics to write about, but I should not forget my third upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2021 in less than 2 weeks, “Upgrading to…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-26

Checking User Threads and Temporary Tables With gdb in MariaDB 10.4+, Step By Step

There were no posts about gdb tricks for a long time in this blog. This is surely unusual, but I had not done anything fancy with gdb for more than…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-25

Checking User Threads and Temporary Tables With gdb in MariaDB 10.4+, Step By Step

There were no posts about gdb tricks for a long time in this blog. This is surely unusual, but I had not done anything fancy with gdb for more than…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-25

Playing with recent bpftrace and MariaDB 10.5 on Fedora – Part II, Using the Existing Tools

In the previous post in this series I’ve presented a couple of my quick and dirty attempts to use bpftrace add uprobes to MariaDB server and dynamic libraries it uses,…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-24

Playing with recent bpftrace and MariaDB 10.5 on Fedora – Part II, Using the Existing Tools

In the previous post in this series I’ve presented a couple of my quick and dirty attempts to use bpftrace add uprobes to MariaDB server and dynamic libraries it uses,…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-24

Playing with recent bpftrace and MariaDB 10.5 on Fedora – Part I, Basic uprobes

There is still some non-zero probability that my talk called “Monitoring MariaDB Server with bpftrace on Linux” is accepted for the FOSDEM 2021 Monitoring and Observability devroom, so it’s time…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-23

Playing with recent bpftrace and MariaDB 10.5 on Fedora – Part I, Basic uprobes

There is still some non-zero probability that my talk called “Monitoring MariaDB Server with bpftrace on Linux” is accepted for the FOSDEM 2021 Monitoring and Observability devroom, so it’s time…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2021-01-23

Life with Rona 2.0 – Days 1 & 2

Today is the first day that in the state of Pahang, we have to encounter what many Malaysians are referring to as the Movement Control Order 2.0 (MCO 2.0). I…

Colin Charles Colin Charles Agenda 2021-01-23

fork, exec, wait and exit

This is the english version of a 2007 article. In de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc somebody asked: Are commands in a script executed strictly sequentially, that is, will the next command only be executed…

Percona Community Blog – learn about MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB 2021-01-04

MySQL Password Rotation with AWS Secrets Manager and Lambda

How to set up MySQL password rotation with AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Lambda, and Terraform

Hack MySQL 2020-12-28

Embracing the Stream

So this happened: CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS…

Percona Community Blog – learn about MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB 2020-12-10