Tag: tips
Enabling IPv6 Support in nginx
16 Jan2010

This is going to be a really short post, but for someone it could save an hour of life.

So, you’ve nothing to do and you’ve decided to play around with IPv6 or maybe you’re happened to be an administrator of a web service that needs to support IPv6 connectivity and you need to make your nginx server work nicely with this protocol.

First thing you need to do is to enable IPv6 in nginx by recompiling it with --with-ipv6 configure option and reinstalling it. If you use some pre-built package, check if your nginx already has this key enabled by running nginx -V.

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ActiveMQ Tips: Flow Control and Stalled Producers Problem
23 Jan2009

It’s been a few months since we‘ve started actively using ActiveMQ queue server in our project. For some time we had pretty weird problems with it and even started thinking about switching to something else or even writing our own queue server which would comply with our requirements. The most annoying problem was the following: some time after activemq restart everything worked really well and then activemq started lagging, queue started growing and all producer processes were stalling on push() operations. We rewrote our producers from Ruby to JRuby, then to Java and still – after some time everything was in a bad shape until we restarted the queue server.

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Top 1000 (84) MySQL Performance Tips From MySQL Camp 2006
14 Nov2006

Looks like MySQL Camp 2006 was really interesting and useful for its attendees and for entire MySQL community. As the result of this meeting of many MySQL-related professionals we’ve got lots of interesting publications and I want to refer one of them in this post. Very interesting list of 84 MySQL performance tips has beed created on first day of this year MySQL Camp at Google headquarters:

  1. Index stuff.
  2. Don’t Index Everything
  3. Use benchmarking
  4. Minimize traffic by fetching only what you need.
    • Paging/chunked data retrieval to limit
    • Don’t use SELECT *
    • Be wary of lots of small quick queries if a longer query can be more efficient
  5. Use EXPLAIN to profile the query execution plan
  6. Use Slow Query Log (always have it on!)
  7. Don’t use DISTINCT when you have or could use GROUP BY
  8. Use proper data partitions (For Cluster. Start thinking about Cluster *before* you need them)
  9. Insert performance
    • Batch INSERT and REPLACE
    • Use LOAD DATA instead of INSERT
  10. LIMIT m,n may not be as fast as it sounds

So, I think this list can be really useful for all developers/DBAs working with MySQL and want to say “Thanks” to its authors.