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Here’s hoping!! Debian with ZFS running MySQL … hmmmmmmmm. Can I have one for Christmas?

Now is the time to put in your suggestions so they can be incorporated into the survey. Don’t be shy!

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As I have blogged about, the conference was great. I returned home on Friday, the 18th. Turns out while we were on the plane that the same server crashed again. This was twice in two weeks. Exact same (non) symptoms — ie nothing obvious. I had talked to a couple of people at the conference about the situation and the lack of any discernible evidence (other than the MyISAM tables). Both people I talked to said it would probably be hardware. By this point I already thought so myself, but it just reinforced my belief. I thought it was either hardware or my servers just miss me when I am not around! We had set up another server to be the slave of the newly promoted master that replaced the crashed server so there was no real rush to get the hardware from the colo. Yesterday we went to the colo for some work and brought back the server that had crashed I plugged it in on our workbench and started up memtest. This morning when I came in … eight memory errors.

So, if you have MyISAM tables and they get marked as crashed in your error log and the server didn’t actually crash you should consider it very likely you have some type of hardware problem. Memory just happens to be the most likely candidate.

Hope this helps someone when they don’t know why the server crashed!!

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When I changed setups a while ago I changed login names..that why it show two authors - “admin” and “bmurphy”. So, if you have a blog this is a very useful plug-in to keep track of your blogging.

So here is what happens. Almost every day I get emails, comments on my blog, or linked-in emails about MySQL DBA positions. I know that many companies are hurting, looking for dbas and MySQL proficient developers. The magazine is targeted at MySQL DBAs and developers. So when someone downloads the magazines you are almost assured of reaching your target audience.

Hmmm…why didn’t I think of this before? A natural match. Now, I don’t want to turn this into a Monster job site, but I think the magazine can offer a service. So, if your company is looking for a MySQL DBA or a developer send me an email at bmurphy AT paragon-cs.com and we can talk. There will be a very reasonable listing fee. The magazine currently comes out once a quarter. In addition to having a job listing in the magazine I will put together a page on the website (http://www.mysqlzine.net) for the job posting.

Have I got your interest? Send me an idea for an article to bmurphy AT paragon-cs.com. Anything relating to DBA work on MySQL or software development around MySQL will be considered.

I am evaluating possible solutions for expanding storage on our servers.  All the way from a full blown SAN to something as simple as ripping out the hard drives currently in the servers and replacing them with larger units.  One of the possibilities is using a Powervault MD300 which is a direct-connect RAID unit that can attach to up to four servers.  It would resolved some space issues we have on a few servers without require an enormous expense of a couple of SANs.    In theory it should actually be faster than the internal RAID as it has a larger cache.

Things I am particulary interested in:

• general impressions
• reliability
• is having four servers going to slow it down that much?
• the java software for management…I understand it can work from any client computer.  Does this mean you don’t have to install any additional software on the server itself?

Thanks!!

Baron, thanks for the hard work on the toolkit. We really appreciate it.

Enjoy!!