On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:19:19PM +0100, Oluwaseun Osewa wrote: > Hi, > > I have been studying the basic limitation that the number of > committed transactions per second possible in a relational databases > is limited by the number of writed per second of the underlying hard > disk, since each transaction requires at least the write-ahead log data > > to be flushed to disk on commit, thus limiting the number of durable > transactions commits possible per second.
InnoDB already provides this flexability. innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit={0,1,2} As described in the InnoDB and MySQL documentation. It's server-wide, not per-connection or transaction, but it's there today. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.15-Yahoo-SMP: up 16 days, processed 586,074,652 queries (405/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]