Scott Haneda wrote:
Unless I am totally off base here, the mysql docs tell very little in regards to how to performance tune mysql. So far I have found this article to help: <http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/10897_1402311_3> But it still leaves me with a ton of questions. For starters, and don't laugh, I just installed mysql and let it run, started adding sites to it and such. The machine has 1 gig of ram in in, but at times, I could ask it were a little snappier. It is a 1.2Ghz machine. First thing I did last night was to try to get a hnalde on this. From what I can tell, I have no my.cnf file in place, so there must be some default settings that are compiled in. I set up a cron job to run the following: show variables like 'table_cache' show status like 'open%_tables' I have been running this once a minute for a day now, how long should I run it to get an idea of what I need to change to better suit my servers load usage? First entry after a mysql restart: Wed Sep 7 03:18:00 PDT 2005 table_cache 64 Open_tables 64 Opened_tables 1050 ----------- Last entry as of now: ----------- Wed Sep 7 16:27:01 PDT 2005 table_cache 64 Open_tables 64 Opened_tables 4407 So it looks like Opened_tables is going to increase forever at the rate I have it, which I am guessing is not a good thing, but not sure what I need to do to fix this. I am really looking for some pretty detailed docs on exactly what I can do in my.cnf to make this work out better. Thanks again, and if there are any questions that would help me get a better answer, please let me know.
Try to find a book called High Performance MySQL from Derek J. Balling & Jeremy Zawodny (the guy from Yahoo). It's an interesting and useful book which skips all the basic stuff and gets you into performance tuning.
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