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Spyros Voultepsis
Spyros earned his stripes after more than 20 years’ experience in the IT and Telco sectors. He has direct in-depth experience of distributed systems, databases, virtualization, and application delivery. He joined Percona in 2017 as a Senior MySQL DBA in the Managed Services team.

Linux OS Tuning for MySQL Database Performance

Jul 03, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software

In this post, we will review the most important settings for Linux performance tuning to adjust for optimization of a MySQL database server. We’ll note how some of the Linux parameter settings used OS tuning may vary according to different system types: physical, virtual or cloud. Other posts have addressed MySQL parameters, like Alexander’s blog […]