[Building Sakai] Rutgers is now using innodb-plugin in production

[Steve Swinsburg]

Any version pre 2.9 doesn't work too well but post 2.9 may be ok. YMMV though and it hasn't been QA'd or endorsed, only 5.1.

cheers,
Steve



On 20/12/2011, at 11:14 AM, Hedrick Charles wrote:

> No. My understanding was that Sakai wasn't supported for 5.5. 
> 
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 6:46:05 PM, Robert Cohen wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Did you evaluate mysql 5.5?
>> From what I've read its supposed to have performance improvements over 5.1
>> even with the innodb plugin.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 20/12/11 5:54 AM, "Charles Hedrick" <hedrick at rutgers.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> We've had two episodes of the database server going to 100%. Because some
>>> of my tests have shown that innodb-plugin works better under some kinds
>>> of load, we're moving to it. We also had a DNS problem that might have
>>> contributed to this. It's been fixed, so if our problems don't come back
>>> we may not be sure what caused it.
>>> 
>>> We're using old versions of mysql 5.1, simply because we haven't wanted
>>> to upgrade in the middle of the year, 5.1.44 with innodb plugin 1.0.6.
>>> We'll probably be moving from our Solaris-based server to a server on
>>> Linux running the newest 5.1, in late January. It's the final part of our
>>> new Xenserver / iSCSI virtual architecture. After looking at various test
>>> results I've decided to run the new system with hypertheading on. Innodb
>>> plugin should deal with the multicore scaling problems sufficiently for
>>> that to make sense.
>>> 
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