Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Maria DB

2013-02-14 Thread Asher Feldman
For most projects, I recommend using the official packages available via the MariaDB projects own apt repo. The official packages are based on the Debian mysql packaging where installing the server package also installs a default database created around generic config defaults, a debian mysql

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Maria DB

2013-02-14 Thread Asher Feldman
Er, no it shouldn't. Initial execution might take microseconds longer due to larger binary sizes and the elf loader having to skip over the symbols but that's about it. On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Petr Bena wrote: Keeping debug symbols in binaries will result in poor performance, or it

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Maria DB

2013-02-14 Thread Mark Bergsma
On Feb 14, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Keeping debug symbols in binaries will result in poor performance, or it should That's bollocks. It results in a larger binary _on disk_. The symbol table isn't even loaded into memory and doesn't affect performance. Debug

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Maria DB

2013-02-14 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 05:14:31PM +0100, Mark Bergsma wrote: Debug information is *highly useful* in a production setup, and we try to run all our core applications with it so we have a chance to debug issues when they occur. I think the only reason distributions omit debug information is

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Maria DB

2013-02-14 Thread Asher Feldman
I would much rather abandon using debs than use what the debian project has done to mysql packaging in any production environment. If the discussion has come down to this, I did WMF a disservice by drifting away from Domas' optimized make ; make install ; rsync unstripped binaries to prod

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Maria DB

2013-02-14 Thread Platonides
On 14/02/13 18:26, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Ubuntu has experimented in the past with the concept of automatically generating and shipping symbols for *all* packages, packaged up in a ddebs (same format as .deb) and shipped via a different repository that isn't mirrored by all of the downstream

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Maria DB

2013-02-13 Thread Asher Feldman
The production migration to MariaDB was paused for a time by the EQIAD datacenter migration and issues involving other projects that took up my time, but the trial production roll-out will resume this month. All signs still point to our using it in production. I did a lot of query testing on an

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Maria DB

2013-02-13 Thread Petr Bena
thanks for updates. Can you tell me what is a difference between maria db you are using and the version that is recommended for use on ubuntu? On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Asher Feldman afeld...@wikimedia.orgwrote: The production migration to MariaDB was paused for a time by the EQIAD