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tokuftdump utility

Abdelhak Errami edited this page Mar 27, 2015 · 18 revisions

tokuftdump is an utility that intended to diagnose and look into the fractal tree file (i.e on disk representation of the FT), for more details on how fractal tree works please read this presentation by two of the founders of Tokutek Mike and Martin, check out this blog by my colleague Joe LaFlamme it has a good example that you can use to verify the claim, and it will not hurt if you can look to this FAQ promise :) This tool could be used in conjunction with above materials to help provide support with useful data , and/or simply understand help you understand how FT works. So the goal of this blog is to explain what and how to use tokuftdump utility to diagnose problems like slow query execution, degraded performance, or simply help you understand how your data is presented in the FT.

For more on how to run some of the commands please see the full write up on this google doc: tokuftdump