June 18, 2013

Post: MySQL and the SSB - Part 2 - MyISAM vs InnoDB low concurrency

… used a 10GB key buffer. I used ALTER TABLE DISABLE KEYS and built the keys with sort via ALTER TABLE ENABLE KEYS. my.cnf [mysqld] datadir=/mnt…=2048 table_definition_cache=16384 innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT key_buffer_size=10G # Disabling symbolic-links is recommended to prevent assorted security…

Post: How is join_buffer_size allocated?

… corresponding buffers are allocated only as big as needed (key_buffer_size). There are many examples of this. What about join_buffer_size? I saw a my.cnf with a 128M join_buffer_size the other…

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

… of having multiple key caches. But I’ll give the simple version here. In my opinion, you should choose a key_buffer_size that is…. Raise the key_buffer_size until, when the buffer is full, Key_reads/Uptime reduces to a number you’re comfortable with. Set key_buffer_size really big… authoritative — the “key cache hit ratio.” This is a shame. When you are new to MySQL, trying to configure my.cnf, and you…

Comment: Database problems in MySQL/PHP Applications

… can copy this file to # /etc/my.cnf to set global options, # mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this…/mysql.sock bind-address=10.234.94.71 skip-locking key_buffer_size = 2000M max_allowed_packet = 32M # table_cache=20M # open-files… #safe-updates [isamchk] key_buffer = 256M sort_buffer_size = 256M read_buffer = 2M write_buffer = 2M [myisamchk] key_buffer = 256M sort_buffer_size = 256M read_buffer = 2M write_buffer = 2M #[mysqlhotcopy] interactive…

Post: Shard-Query EC2 images available

… InnoDB my.cnf [client] port=3306 socket=/tmp/mysql-inno.sock [mysqld] socket=/tmp/mysql-inno.sock default-storage-engine=INNODB innodb-buffer…-use-sys-stats-table innodb-write-io-threads=4 join-buffer-size=16M key-buffer-size=64M local-infile=on lock-wait-timeout=300 log-error=/var/log/mysqld-innodb.log max-allowed-packet=1M net-buffer

Comment: MySQL: what read_buffer_size value is optimal ?

… the buffers to 128 kbyte? I put this in my my.cnf: key_buffer_size = 256M sort_buffer_size = 128K read_buffer_size = 128K read_rnd_buffer_size = 128K join_buffer_size = 128K myisam_sort_buffer_size… regarding to the my.cnf): key_buffer_size 268435456 sort_buffer_size 131064 read_buffer_size 126976 read_rnd_buffer_size 126976 join_buffer_size 126976 myisam_sort_buffer_size 131072 The key_buff shows the…

Comment: Solving RPM installation conflicts in CentOS 5 and CentOS 6

… /etc/my.cnf,i add wsrep_cluster_address=gcomm:// to fill it ,the mysql server will not running [root@mysql1 ~]# vi /etc/my.cnf… by reporting any bugs at http://bugs.percona.com/ key_buffer_size=0 read_buffer_size=131072 max_used_connections=0 max_threads=151 thread… It is possible that mysqld could use up to key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_threads = 329809 K bytes of memory Hope that…

Post: How much memory can MySQL use in the worst case?

…: “It is possible that mysqld could use up to key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_connections”. This was never true — not even when… set sort_buffer_size to 128K — I can quite well connect and say “set @@sort_buffer_size := 1 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;” and my sort_buffer_size is…’m initially setting up a my.cnf for a server, I usually calculate the Big Ones like the buffer pool, query cache etc…

Post: What to tune in MySQL Server after installation

… are much more sensitive to buffer size compared to MyISAM. MyISAM may work kind of OK with default key_buffer_size even with large data set but it will crawl with default innodb_buffer_pool_size. Also Innodb buffer pool caches… workload. P.S Note MySQL distribution contains bunch of sample my.cnf files which may be great templates to use. Typically they…

Comment: MySQL File System Fragmentation Benchmarks

…insert throughput as in this benchmark. Could you post the my.cnf file used and the computer hardware specs that produced …sort_file_size=100G myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size=100G myisam_sort_buffer_size=185M key_buffer_size=157M read_buffer_size=64K read_rnd_buffer_size=256K sort_buffer_size=256K…