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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA in Silicon Valley. I've been programming for 20 years for companies like eBay, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
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Using oprofile with the MySQL Server
Monty Taylor from MySQL Consulting gave a Percona Performance Conference talk on using oprofile, the linux kernel profiler, to diagnose MySQL server performance issues. Installing oprofile requires the oprofile package (yum install oprofile), and optionally /boot/vmlinux for kernel symbols. I … Continue reading
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