Comments on: I want simple things to be easy http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2010/05/13/i-want-simple-things-to-be-easy/ Stay curious! Fri, 10 May 2013 18:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2010/05/13/i-want-simple-things-to-be-easy/#comment-18325 Xaprb Fri, 14 May 2010 12:19:28 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1845#comment-18325 Paul, I’ve read the blog posts about xtstat and looked at it a while ago myself, but I haven’t really kept up with it. I have PBXT on my to-learn list. It has lots of company.

]]> By: Paul McCullagh http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2010/05/13/i-want-simple-things-to-be-easy/#comment-18324 Paul McCullagh Fri, 14 May 2010 08:25:08 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1845#comment-18324 Hi Baron,

Have you had a look at how xtstat of PBXT works? I just have counters for events and time for operations. The counters are output using an I_S table. xtstat, just calculates the difference over time and displays the data in a readable form.

This is a simple but (I think) effective method.

Frankly I have often considered adding this functionality to InnoDB so that I can compare performance directly between PBXT and InnoDB.

Then it would be easy to answer questions like:

- Which engine is writing more to the transaction log?
- Which engine is getting better disk throughput?

Availability on the command line is also important. xtstat will soon ship with MariaDB, so any DBA or consultant can quickly look at the engine performance, as easy as starting mysql.

Best regards,

Paul

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