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What is the best use of memory in MySQL?

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Problem

I have a MySql server with 2Gb of memory. What's the best configuration to use then with best results? How can I "distribute" this memory fine to MySql server?

Solution

You can alter some values in your /etc/my.cnf file.

Some important ones are innodb_buffer_pool_size (assuming you are using InnoDB) and also query_cache_size. You should try to set the innodb_buffer_pool_size to 10% larger than the size of your data if you can. The default of 8MB really is woeful for performance.

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StackExchange Database Administrators Q#799, answer score: 3

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