MySQL Community Awards 2014 : Community Contributor of the year 2014

At Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo (PLMCE), I had the honor to receive a MySQL Community Award for the "Community Contributor of the year 2014". I was so proud and still I am. This is the reason why I received it: Frederic organizes the MySQL & Friends Devroom at FOSDEM every year. He worked towards making a true community driven event participated by all key players. in 2014 the MySQL & Friends devroom also presented a shared booth/stand regrouping Oracle, MariaDB/SkySQL and Percona engineers and developers. But this Award can't be only mine, I need to share it with all people that helped me in this adventure and that makes it possible. FOSDEM MySQL & Friends Devroom is maybe now the second best event in Europe after Percona Live UK (PLUK). I'm sorry, "apologies upfront" (some people will understand this sentence), but I'll now thanks all the people that deserves it and the list is long: - FOSDEM, for the acceptance of the MySQL & Friends Devroom every year since 2009. - Kris sdog Buytaert, who encouraged me to give my first talk in the MySQL Devroom in 2010. - Lenz Grimmer, to have run the devroom at the beginning - Giuseppe @datacharmer Maxia, for having helped me and introduced me to key players in the Community to be able to create every year a strong Committee with people of different companies and opensource projects - Colin @bytebot Charles, for having participate to all these devrooms as visitor, speaker and committee member (and congratulation for the Award too) - Sergey Petrunia who also helped me the first year I was in charge of the devroom - Henrik @h_ingo Ingo, who was a model for me in how he represented the Open Source in the MySQL ecosystem (you can come back whenever you want) - Oracle, Tungsten, SkySQL, MariaDB, Percona to have allowed their engineers to travel, speak and share the booth with each others - All committee members - All speakers (2014, 2013,2012) - All attendees - and last but not least the Percona Belgian Team, Liz @lizztheblizz van Dijk, Dimitri @dim0 Vanoverbeke and Kenny @gryp Gryp who supported me for the logistic and organized a wonderful Community Dinner this year. Again thank you everybody, this award is our award to all of us !

Add your favorite webradio in Rhythmbox

If like me you like to listen radio while working on your computer but you don't like to have it open on a webpage. And if you find very useful the way how rhythmbox mutes itself when you get a call, you need then to add your radio in your favourite audio program. The problem is that it's not always obvious to find the url to use for the radio media. So this is how to proceed:
  • you need to install ngrep
  • run it like this : 
       ngrep -d p3p1 -lqi -p -W none ^get\|^post tcp dst port 80
    (-d p3p1 is used to specify the interface if you have multiple choices)
  • open in your browser the page you use to listen the radio usually
  • find the stream you are looking for in ngrep's output:
  • add it to rhythmbox and you are done ;)

sysbench 0.5 rev 119

I recreated rpms for the latest revision (119) of sysbench. I made them available for Fedora 19 and CentOS 6. Enjoy !

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OSS4B – Presenting in Italy

I will be present in Prato (Firenze), Italy Thursday and Friday (September 19th and 20th) to deliver 2 presentations at OSS4B: If you want to learn about these projects or discuss anything related to MySQL and Percona, join the conference and don't hesitate to come to talk to me. I will be very happy to answer your questions. Ci vediamo in Prato !

innotop with support for 5.6

My colleague Kenny hit a bug with Innotop and MySQL 5.6. He submitted a bug with a patch. This is a new pre-release rpm of Innotop (1.9.0-3) that includes that patch. Enjoy it ! [UPDATE] New rpms are now available directly on Innotop's download page

Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013

For my first participation to THE MySQL event of the year, I have the honour of delivering a full day tutorial on Opetational DBA in a nutshell with my two Belgian colleagues (call us the be-team ;) ) and a lighting talk related to MySQL database schema migration: how to version them and manage those operations. If you don't want to miss THE essential event of the MySQL ecosystem, use code "SpeakMySQL" at checkout for 15% off! Register here: http://bit.ly/14au67Z. See you soon there !

nolinger option for Galera Load Balancer (glb)

If you test Galera synchronous replication with Percona XtraDB Cluster or MariaDB Galera Cluster you must have tried to use a load balancer like HA Proxy or Galera Load Balancer. On very heavy load, you may have issue with a large amount of TCP in TIME_WAIT like this one: 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:59035         127.0.0.1:3306          TIME_WAIT
This can lead to a TCP port exhaustion as explained on this post. On HA proxy since version 1.4.19, you can use the nolinger option also on TCP backends. This terminate the connection (TCP RST) as soon as the loadbalancer finished the communication. The counter part is that Aborted_clients status counter in MySQL increases with each connections' end. This counter becomes then useless. This option is not available on glb (with -l parameter) if you apply the patch attached to this post. I provide also rpm package with the patch applied : 
Name        : glb
Version     : 0.9.2
Release     : 2
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: (not installed)
Group       : Productivity/Networking/Routing
Size        : 208489
License     : GNU General Public License version 2 or later (GPL v2 or later)
Signature   : (none)
Source RPM  : glb-0.9.2-2.src.rpm
Build Date  : mer 27 fév 2013 17:15:54 CET
Build Host  : percona1
Relocations : (not relocatable)
URL         : http://www.codership.com/products/galera-load-balancer
Summary     : TCP Connection Balancer
Description :
glb is a simple user-space TCP connection balancer made with scalability and
performance in mind. It was inspired by pen, but unlike pen its functionality
is limited only to balancing generic TCP connections.

Features:
* list of backend servers is configurable in runtime.
* supports server "draining", i.e. does not allocate new connections to server,
  but does not kill existing ones, waiting for them to end gracefully.
* on Linux 2.6 and higher glb uses epoll API for ultimate performance.
* glb is multithreaded, so it can utilize multiple CPU cores. In fact even on a
  single core CPU using several threads can significantly improve performance
  when using poll()-based IO.
* connections are distributed proportionally to weights assigned to backend
  servers.
* this is a patched version providing SO_LINGER
Example: 
[root@macbookair ~]# glbd -K -l --threads 6 --control 127.0.0.1:4444 127.0.0.1:3308 127.0.0.1:3306
glb v0.9.2 (epoll)
Incoming address:       127.0.0.1:3308 , control FIFO: /tmp/glbd.fifo
Control  address:        127.0.0.1:4444 
Number of threads: 6, max conn: 493, policy: 'least connected', top: NO, nodelay:
 ON, keepalive: OFF, defer accept: OFF, verbose: OFF, linger: ON, daemon: NO
Destinations: 1
   0:       127.0.0.1:3306 , w: 1.000
Router:
------------------------------------------------------
        Address       :   weight   usage    map  conns
      127.0.0.1:3306  :    1.000   0.000    N/A      0
------------------------------------------------------
Destinations: 1, total connections: 0 of 493 max

Pool: connections per thread:     0     0     0     0     0     0
If you test it please post a comment.

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