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Making MySQL Use More Memory
January 7th, 2009 by Scott SelikoffUnlike a lot of database servers, MySQL is strangely conservative (by default) on how much memory it will allocate. If you’re not careful, you can have 16GB of RAM on your machine with MySQL only using 50MBs, leading to extremely poor performance under heavy load. I know firsthand that navigating MySQL configuration guides can be [...]
Posted: 7 January, 2009 in Database.
Tags: Database, innodb, performance
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