Posts Tagged with 'performance'

Recently we saw that the journal device location, unfortunately, didn't make much of a difference on ext4 metadata performance. But can the size of the journal will have an impact on metadata performance? The first in a series of articles examining the journal size and performance.

Everyone loves a shiny new kernel. The latest one, 2.6.32, was released on Dec. 3 and there are some nice updates/fixes for file systems and IO in general. But there is a very important change for the CFQ IO scheduler that you need to understand.

What are a few of the things you really need to keep in mind when starting that next big MySQL project?

Looking for a mature, open source database that's not owned by Oracle? Whether you're already a fan or are looking for alternatives, now might be a good time to take a look PostgreSQL. The latest release of Postgres has a slew of built-in features that allow you to improve both performance and systems administration. Learn how you take advantage of them.

Get under the hood of MySQL to find out how you can speed up your database applications.