Archive for October, 2009

Google Perftools 1.4 are available for Debian 5.0 “Lenny”

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Looking for a new way to speed up your MySQL server? The tcmalloc library from Google Perftools could be the answer (about 15-20% performance improvement). Refer to this (updated) How-to for more information. I just packaged Google Perftools 1.4 for Debian 5.0 (a.k.a. "Lenny"). According to the Changelog, they're bringing a lot of ...

MySQL 5.1.39 released for Debian “Etch” and “Lenny”

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

MySQL 5.1.39 is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 4.0 “Etch” / Debian 5.0 “Lenny” in amd64/i386 flavours. This maintenance release fixes a lot of bugs. Please note that the Lenny version introduces some hardening features. As usual, please read the list of changes in 5.1.39 before upgrading.