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How to tune MYSQL db for best performance?

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Question added by Harshad Usman , Senior software engineer , Cognizant Technologies
Date Posted: 2015/10/10
Chander Prakash
by Chander Prakash , full stack developer , Barclays - South Africa

 

  • MEMORY/RAM, specifically the buffers
  • SWAP
  • ACID - Do you need full ACID, or can you (likely) make some sacrifices there for speed
  • tmp tables, tmpdir (use a tmpfs mounted dir)
  • Thread/Connections - How many processes and threads should be running
  • open_files / table_cache - May need to boost your /etc/security/limits.conf and your /etc/sysctl.conf

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