So, we’ve heard that jemalloc is better than malloc for MySQL usage, and in fact, certain versions / forks of mysql already include this, eg. Percona Server (https://github.com/percona/jemalloc).

But, how can I install and configure my system to use it?

Here’s a quick push in the, hopefully, right direction.

First things first, what is “jemalloc” and how does it affect my system? I think it’s quite well explained here: https://www.percona.com/blog/impact-of-memory-allocators-on-mysql-performance/ albeit an old article.

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When running tests, it is sometimes useful to slow down IOs to clearly show the impact of reading from the disk.  Modern laptops and servers usually have fast local SSDs, and most cloud vendors provide, in addition to fast local disks, relatively fast network block devices (EBS for AWS and Persistent Disk for GCP).  Even when using magnetic network block devices, IOs are not guaranteed

OpenLiteSpeed is a lightweight and open-source version of the LiteSpeed Server developed by LiteSpeed Technologies. It supports Apache Rewrite rules, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, and TLS v1.3 and QUIC protocols. This tutorial will show you how to install an OpenLiteSpeed Server on Ubuntu 24.04.

Back again, now with MySQL installs. And this means using the MySQL repository this time around.

I’ve been installing and configuring InnoDB Clusters and ClusterSets and thinking about the Ansible and Terraform users amongst us, maybe one-liners might help someone out there.

So, what about if I share how to install the MySQL repo, install the MySQL instance, create an InnoDB Cluster, add a MySQL Router, create a ClusterSet, make sure the Router is ClusterSet-aware, and then test it out. And all via one-liners.

First up, obrigado Miguel for https://github.com/miguelaraujo/ClusterSet-Demo.

To simplify the command execution sequence, these sections aim to help summarize the technical commands required to create the whole platform. And on a default path & port configuration, to ease operational deployments for all those 000’s of installs …

This post goes through installing and configuring Ruby and Ruby on Rails for MySQL. The first step requires updating the Ubuntu OS:

sudo apt-get update

Interestingly, I found that the man-db service had inadvertently stopped. It raised the following error:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 

You run this command to find the problem with the dpkg utility:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

It returned:

Setting up man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
Updating database of manual pages ...
man-db.service is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it.

The following command started the man-db service:

sudo systemctl start man-db.service

Next, you install the prerequisite packages with this command:

sudo apt-get install -y git-core zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev …

Configuring Perl to work with MySQL is straight forward. While Perl is installed generally, you may need to install the libdbd-mysql-perl library.

You install it as a sudoer user with this syntax:

sudo apt install -y libdbd-mysql-perl

Display detailed console log →

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libmysqlclient21
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient21
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,389 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,143 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libmysqlclient21 amd64 8.0.35-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 [1,301 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64 libdbd-mysql-perl amd64 …

It’s always interesting when I build new instances. Ubuntu 22.0.4 was no different but I ran into an issue with installing Apache2 and eventually loading the mysqli module.

The Apache2 error was an issue with an unsupported module or hidden prerequisite. The MySQLi required an Apache reload after installation. Contrary to some erroneous posts the mysqli driver is supported on PHP 8.1.

Apache2 installation starts first and the mysqli module reload and verification script follows. On Ubuntu, you install Apache2 if you’re unaware of the hidden pre-requisite, otherwise install the pre-requisite first and avoid the error.

This is the command to install the apache2 module:

sudo apt-get install -y apache2

It generated the following error message:

apache2: Syntax error on line 146 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/wsgi.load: Cannot load …

After having explained how to build MySQL 8 (MySQL 8.0 and MySQL 8.1) on OL9 and OL7, this episode of the series will cover how to build MySQL 8 on Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) and compatible (EL8, CentOS 8, …).

My build machine is a VM.Standard.E4.Flex instance on OCI having 8 OCPUs and 128GB of ram with Oracle Linux 8.8. The machine has also a block volume of 50GB attached and mounted in /home/opc/rpmbuild:

Getting the source RPM

To get the source RPM, you need first to install the MySQL Community’s repo:

$ sudo dnf install -y https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-el8-7.noarch.rpm

But comparing to OL7 and OL9, this is maybe the most complicate process if you are not aware …

Following our discussion with Simon about compiling MySQL 8.0.34 and 8.1.0 for OL9 (RedHat and CentOS Stream as well), see this blog post, we realized that compiling the latest MySQL 8.x on OL7 (EL7) wasn’t very simple either.

After soliciting the MySQL release engineer team, I was able to compile MySQL correctly from its src rpm.

Let me share the various steps with you.

My build machine is a VM.Standard.E4.Flex instance on OCI having 4 OCPUs and 64GB of ram with Oracle Linux 7.9. The machine has also a block volume of 50GB attached and mounted in /home/opc/rpmbuild.

Getting the source RPM

To get the source RPM, you need first to install the MySQL Community’s repo:

$ sudo yum install -y …