Category Archives: Waffle Grid

Filtering by table is now possible with WaffleGrid

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Yves Trudeau

Since I have been a home recently, I put some time correcting bugs in WaffleGrid and adding new features. Thanks to gdb, I have been able to understand a silly bug that was affecting WaffleGrid with sysbench but, weird enough, … Continue reading →

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You know you have really screwed up when …

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Matthew Yonkovit

You crash MySQL/Innodb and you trace the error to a function that says: “This function checks the consistency of an index page when we do not know the index. This is also resilient so that this should never crash even … Continue reading →

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Waffle Grid Like Features in EnterpriseDB

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Matthew Yonkovit

Yves pointed this out to me: http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3825426/ “Moving beyond just providing Oracle compatibility, EnterpriseDB is adding new scalability features to their database. One of them is a feature called ‘”Infinite Cache,” which is based on the open source memcached application. … Continue reading →

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Testing Waffle

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Matthew Yonkovit

So Ronald Bradford has been getting some EC2 AMI’s setup for Waffle the last couple of days. Really he is the first person to work with us on testing out the 0.5 cream release. It’s funny but when you are … Continue reading →

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WaffleGrid: Cream Benchmarks, stable and delivering a 3x boost

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Matthew Yonkovit

Lets get down to how the latest version of Waffle Grid performs. Starting off simple lets look at the difference between the wafflegrid modes. As mentioned before the LRU mode is the “classic” Waffle Grid setup. A page is put … Continue reading →

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WaffleGrid: 0.5 Cream Release

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Matthew Yonkovit

I wanted to let everyone know that we are releasing Waffle Grid 0.5 code named Cream. This release fixes the nasty secondary index bug that plagued the butter release. I have been running tests on this code base for about … Continue reading →

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Waffle: Progress and a Rearchtecture?

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Matthew Yonkovit

So I spent several hours over the last few days on the Secondary index bug. Out of frustration I decided to try and bypass the LRU concept all together and try going to a true secondary page cache. In standard … Continue reading →

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Waffle: The Mystery Continues

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Matthew Yonkovit

So I spent the weekend looking at places where we may have missed something in the code for waffle. You can actually see some of the stuff I tried in the bug on launchpad about this, but the weird thing … Continue reading →

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Waffle: limiting the space ids being pushed to memcached

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Matthew Yonkovit

If you read Yves blog post about waffle yesterday we are seeing some weird gremlins in the system and could use some scoobey doo detective work if you have some ideas. The strange thing is it only exhibits under high … Continue reading →

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What’s up with WaffleGrid?

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Yves Trudeau

You probably haven’t noticed but I have not blogged since the UC. It is not because I am upset by the perspective of working for Oracle, I have simply been busy tracking down an issue we have with WaffleGrid. We … Continue reading →

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