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MySQL Sizing questions

by | Jun 23, 2006 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs

I frequently get questions along the lines of “how many transactions per second MySQL can do” or “how many servers I need to handle 100.000 users” or “which hardware would be enough to handle my 40GB” database. There are two things...

Using MyISAM in production

by | Jun 17, 2006 | Insight for DBAs

There were recently number of posts about MyISAM, for example Arjen wrote pretty nice article about MyISAM features so I thought I would share my own view on using MyISAM in production. For me it is not only about table locks. Table locks is only one of MyISAM...

Are larger buffers always better ?

by | Jun 6, 2006 | Uncategorized

Sometimes I see people thinking about buffers as “larger is always better” so if “large” MySQL sample configuration is designed for 2GB and they happen to have 16, they would simply multiply all/most values by 10 and hope it will work well....

MySQL Server Memory Usage

by | May 17, 2006 | Insight for DBAs

Every so often people ask me the question how should they estimate memory consumption by MySQL Server in given configuration. What is the formula they could use. The reasons to worry about memory usage are quite understandable. If you configure MySQL Server so it uses...