Twitter open sources its MySQL fork

Twitter open sources its MySQL fork(engineering.twitter.com)

11 points by zxypoo 14 years ago | 1 comment

spudlyo 14 years ago |

One interesting improvement relates to NUMA node allocations.

I think the reasoning is that if you touch all the memory in the buffer pool after you allocate it, you're more likely to get a balanced node allocation than if you let MySQL organically access it.

spudlyo 14 years ago |

One interesting improvement relates to NUMA node allocations.

I think the reasoning is that if you touch all the memory in the buffer pool after you allocate it, you're more likely to get a balanced node allocation than if you let MySQL organically access it.