On 02/12/2013 01:22 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > hi guys, > > quick start: > drop http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/mariadb/mariadb.repo into > /etc/yum.repos.d/ and yum list mariadb\* > > This is adapted from the Fedora spec adapted by Johnny for CentOS-6 and > upgraded to 5.5.29; we have done some basic testing on these packages > and they worked for us. We are now looking for wider testing and > feedback about both the packaging, the payload and how its setup as well > as any build issues. > > These packages are setup to replace MySQL on your machine, so be > careful. And we consider these rpms to be of Testing grade, unsuiteable > for production at this point. > > Post feedback as follow up to this email, or at bugs.centos.org/ > > Regards, > Just for the record and not directly related to these packages: a friend of mine tested mariadb under production-like load and the results were less then satisfactory. Using mariadb 5.5.27 on a 64bit squeeze led to backtrace in mysql.log + restart when using "ALTER" on tables with 3 rows and 4 columns which was serving data at 80 Mbps. The log became damaged as well on the second attempt of using ALTER.