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Post: Should you move from MyISAM to Innodb ?

January 12, 2009 By 59 Comments

… Archive) for logging. Innodb Needs Tuning As a final note about MyISAM to Innodb migration I should mention about Innodb tuning. Innodb needs tuning. Really. MyISAM for… and it worked reasonably. Innodb needs resources and it will not work well with defaults a lot. Tuning MyISAM from defaults rarely…

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Post: Tuning for heavy writing workloads

October 14, 2009 By 9 Comments

… specific general settings) innodb_ibuf_active_contract = 1 innodb_adaptive_flushing = false innodb_adaptive_checkpoint = estimate <tuning peak performance> At first, tuning the peak performance… lock contention. The current XtraDB has the variable to tune the contention. innodb_stats_update_need_lock = 0 (default 1) It skip…

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Post: Heikki Tuuri Innodb answers - Part I

October 26, 2007 By 19 Comments

… cases when self tuning gets it wrong. Q10: When Innodb decides to schedule sequential read-ahead, random read ahead ? HT: InnoDB schedules a… data and allows the user to tune the checkpointing values. HT: Hmm… we could tune the way InnoDB does the buffer pool flush…, “Helps in performance tuning in heavily concurrent environments. Sets the max\ imum number of threads allowed inside InnoDB. Value 0 will disable…

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Post: Why you should ignore MySQL's key cache hit ratio

February 28, 2010 By 28 Comments

… to MyISAM tables. Consider your mixture of storage engines (some InnoDB, some MyISAM, which is more important to you, etc) and… it? What about InnoDB tuning? You might be wondering, what about InnoDB tuning? What is the best way to choose an innodb_buffer_pool_size… version is: ratio-based tuning is just as wrong for InnoDB as it is for MyISAM. Ratio-based tuning is invalid and wrong…

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Post: Innodb Performance Optimization Basics

November 1, 2007 By 75 Comments

… looking for more details, check out detailed guide on tuning innodb buffer pool innodb_log_file_size – This depends on your recovery speed… on Innodb ones today. You can check about tuning other options here or read one of our MySQL Presentations. Application tuning for Innodb Especially… on indexes). With these basic innodb performance tunings you will be better of when majority of Innodb users which take MySQL with defaults…

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Post: What to tune in MySQL Server after installation

September 29, 2006 By 118 Comments

… created on disk. innodb_buffer_pool_size This is very important variable to tune if you’re using Innodb tables. Innodb tables are much… data set but it will crawl with default innodb_buffer_pool_size. Also Innodb buffer pool caches both data and index pages… larger) so you can see how much memory Innodb allocates for misc needs. innodb_log_file_size Very important for write intensive…

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Post: Tuning InnoDB Concurrency Tickets

May 24, 2010 By 5 Comments

… that can enter InnoDB is limited by innodb_thread_concurrency (which is why these two variables are most often tuned in concert). To continue the example, if innodb_thread… you’re optimizing for throughput in this scenario, you will tune innodb_concurrency_tickets to the 99th percentile of small PK lookups…

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Post: MySQL Users Conference Presentation Proposals

October 24, 2007 By 12 Comments

… together to produce better talk instead. Hidden Innodb Tuning Options Innodb Storage Engine has a lot of tuning options hardcoded as constants. We investigate… you can get any additional performance. Investigating Innodb Scalability Limits You may have heard Innodb has limited scalability with multiple CPUs and…

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Post: How Innodb Contention may manifest itself

July 28, 2011 By 1 Comment

… you can consider increasing innodb_sync_spin_loops to a higher number. It is worth to note fine tuning Innodb Contention with number of spin locks loops is something i would consider last resort tuning, the performance improvements… of Apache Children) as well as adjusting innodb_thread_concurrency and doing other server tuning should be first on your list. I…

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Post: InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 2, The Queries!

March 4, 2013 By 7 Comments

… and MySQL 5.6.10 with no configuration tuning other than to set innodb_ft_min_token_size to 4 (rather than… innodb_myisam_stopword\G *************************** 1. row *************************** Table: innodb_myisam_stopword Create Table: CREATE TABLE `innodb_myisam_stopword` ( `value` varchar(18) NOT NULL DEFAULT ” ) ENGINE=InnoDB… InnoDB FTS compare to its MyISAM counterpart, and what kinds of tricks can we use to make it go faster? Stay tuned…

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