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MySQL 9.1 Reference Manual  / ...  / MySQL NDB Cluster 9.1  / NDB Cluster Programs  /  ndb_size.pl — NDBCLUSTER Size Requirement Estimator

25.5.29 ndb_size.pl — NDBCLUSTER Size Requirement Estimator

This is a Perl script that can be used to estimate the amount of space that would be required by a MySQL database if it were converted to use theNDBCLUSTER storage engine. Unlike the other utilities discussed in this section, it does not require access to an NDB Cluster (in fact, there is no reason for it to do so). However, it does need to access the MySQL server on which the database to be tested resides.

Note

ndb_size.pl is deprecated, and no longer supported. You should expect it to be removed from a future version of the NDB Cluster distribution, and modify any dependent applications accordingly.

Requirements

  • A running MySQL server. The server instance does not have to provide support for NDB Cluster.

  • A working installation of Perl.

  • TheDBI module, which can be obtained from CPAN if it is not already part of your Perl installation. (Many Linux and other operating system distributions provide their own packages for this library.)

  • A MySQL user account having the necessary privileges. If you do not wish to use an existing account, then creating one usingGRANT USAGE ONdb_name.*—wheredb_name is the name of the database to be examined—is sufficient for this purpose.

ndb_size.pl can also be found in the MySQL sources instorage/ndb/tools.

Options that can be used withndb_size.pl are shown in the following table. Additional descriptions follow the table.

Usage

perl ndb_size.pl [--database={db_name|ALL}] [--hostname=host[:port]] [--socket=socket] \      [--user=user] [--password=password]  \      [--help|-h] [--format={html|text}] \      [--loadqueries=file_name] [--savequeries=file_name]

By default, this utility attempts to analyze all databases on the server. You can specify a single database using the--database option; the default behavior can be made explicit by usingALL for the name of the database. You can also exclude one or more databases by using the--excludedbs option with a comma-separated list of the names of the databases to be skipped. Similarly, you can cause specific tables to be skipped by listing their names, separated by commas, following the optional--excludetables option. A host name can be specified using--hostname; the default islocalhost. You can specify a port in addition to the host usinghost:port format for the value of--hostname. The default port number is 3306. If necessary, you can also specify a socket; the default is/var/lib/mysql.sock. A MySQL user name and password can be specified the corresponding options shown. It also possible to control the format of the output using the--format option; this can take either of the valueshtml ortext, withtext being the default. An example of the text output is shown here:

$> ndb_size.pl --database=test --socket=/tmp/mysql.sockndb_size.pl report for database: 'test' (1 tables)--------------------------------------------------Connected to: DBI:mysql:host=localhost;mysql_socket=/tmp/mysql.sockIncluding information for versions: 4.1, 5.0, 5.1test.t1-------DataMemory for Columns (* means varsized DataMemory):         Column Name            Type  Varsized   Key  4.1  5.0   5.1     HIDDEN_NDB_PKEY          bigint             PRI    8    8     8                  c2     varchar(50)         Y         52   52    4*                  c1         int(11)                    4    4     4                                                       --   --    --Fixed Size Columns DM/Row                              64   64    12   Varsize Columns DM/Row                               0    0     4DataMemory for Indexes:   Index Name                 Type        4.1        5.0        5.1      PRIMARY                BTREE         16         16         16                                           --         --         --       Total Index DM/Row                  16         16         16IndexMemory for Indexes:               Index Name        4.1        5.0        5.1                  PRIMARY         33         16         16                                  --         --         --           Indexes IM/Row         33         16         16Summary (for THIS table):                                 4.1        5.0        5.1    Fixed Overhead DM/Row         12         12         16           NULL Bytes/Row          4          4          4           DataMemory/Row         96         96         48                    (Includes overhead, bitmap and indexes)  Varsize Overhead DM/Row          0          0          8   Varsize NULL Bytes/Row          0          0          4       Avg Varside DM/Row          0          0         16                 No. Rows          0          0          0        Rows/32kb DM Page        340        340        680Fixedsize DataMemory (KB)          0          0          0Rows/32kb Varsize DM Page          0          0       2040  Varsize DataMemory (KB)          0          0          0         Rows/8kb IM Page        248        512        512         IndexMemory (KB)          0          0          0Parameter Minimum Requirements------------------------------* indicates greater than default                Parameter     Default        4.1         5.0         5.1          DataMemory (KB)       81920          0           0           0       NoOfOrderedIndexes         128          1           1           1               NoOfTables         128          1           1           1         IndexMemory (KB)       18432          0           0           0    NoOfUniqueHashIndexes          64          0           0           0           NoOfAttributes        1000          3           3           3             NoOfTriggers         768          5           5           5

For debugging purposes, the Perl arrays containing the queries run by this script can be read from the file specified using can be saved to a file using--savequeries; a file containing such arrays to be read during script execution can be specified using--loadqueries. Neither of these options has a default value.

To produce output in HTML format, use the--format option and redirect the output to a file, as shown here:

$> ndb_size.pl --database=test --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock --format=html > ndb_size.html

(Without the redirection, the output is sent tostdout.)

The output from this script includes the following information: