A couple of days ago, Dimitri published a blog post, Analyzing Percona’s TPCC-like Workload on MySQL 5.5, which was a response to my post, MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive. I will refer to Dimitri’s article as article [1]. As always, Dimitri has provided a very detailed and thoughtful article, and I strongly recommend reading if [...]
InnoDB memory usage
May 30, 2006 By 8 Comments
There are many questions how InnoDB allocates memory. I’ll try to give some explanation about the memory allocation at startup. Some important constants: NBLOCKS=count of block in innodb_buffer_pool = innodb_buffer_pool_size / 16384 OS_THREADS= if (innodb_buffer_pool_size >= 1000Mb) = 50000 else if (innodb_buffer_pool_size >= 8Mb) = 10000 else = 1000 (it’s true for *nixes, for Windows [...]
