I’ve been preparing for my innotop session at the upcoming MySQL conference, and enlisted Giuseppe Maxia’s MySQL Sandbox to help me get a bunch of MySQL servers, from 3.23.58 to 5.2.3, running on one machine. It was super-easy and has helped me find some bugs in innotop. I should have done this a long time ago.
To get started, I just read through Giuseppe’s Sandbox article on O’Reilly Databases Blog. After reading this, I downloaded the scripts and a bunch of binary distributions of MySQL (I’m using Ubuntu). I took the “how to make it easy” advice and unpacked them all in /opt/mysql:
baron@wabbit:~ $ ls /opt/mysql 3.23.58 4.0.27 4.1.0 4.1.22 5.1.15 5.2.3
After that, all I had to do was change to the sandbox directory and say ./express_install.pl <version> for each version, and it set everything up for me. Boy, was that easy! Before I did this, I had spent a couple hours reading through the manual’s instructions on how to get many servers on one machine — this was much faster and easier.
The next step for me was setting up some of the servers as slaves of others. I needed to modify the config files to set the server-id, and to make them listen to TCP connections, but that was trivial.
Then I pointed innotop at all of them and started finding bugs in innotop (and a few in MySQL’s documentation too). Who knew SHOW OPEN TABLES behaved so differently in 3.23.58? It was high time I did this; I actually feel a little silly for putting it off so long.
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