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corman420
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I have a CentOS 5 installation with Plesk 8.6. I am optimizing my configuration files. I have noticed in the my.cnf file, that I used "set-variable=" in front of every variable. I am just wondering - do I need this?
After spending alot of time optimizing, here is my new my.cnf file:
And here is my OLD my.cnf file (notice how I used set-variable=):
After spending alot of time optimizing, here is my new my.cnf file:
Code:
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
#skip-name-resolve
safe-show-database
#old_passwords
back_log = 50
skip-innodb
max_connections = 500
key_buffer_size = 128M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M
join_buffer_size = 1M
read_buffer_size = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 2M
table_cache = 4000
thread_cache_size = 256
wait_timeout = 20
connect_timeout = 10
tmp_table_size = 64M
max_heap_table_size = 64M
max_allowed_packet = 64M
net_buffer_length = 16384
max_connect_errors = 100000
thread_concurrency = 8
concurrent_insert = 2
table_lock_wait_timeout = 30
read_rnd_buffer_size = 786432
bulk_insert_buffer_size = 8M
query_cache_limit = 4M
query_cache_size = 80M
query_cache_type = 1
query_prealloc_size = 262144
query_alloc_block_size = 65536
transaction_alloc_block_size = 8192
transaction_prealloc_size = 4096
default-storage-engine = MyISAM
max_write_lock_count = 8
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
nice = -10
open_files_limit = 8192
[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M
[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 384M
sort_buffer = 64M
read_buffer = 16M
write_buffer = 16M
And here is my OLD my.cnf file (notice how I used set-variable=):
Code:
[mysqld]
set-variable=local-infile=0
# skip-networking
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
set-variable=max_connections=500
set-variable=key_buffer=96M
set-variable=myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
set-variable=join_buffer_size=1M
set-variable=read_buffer_size=1M
set-variable=sort_buffer_size=2M
set-variable=table_cache=4000
set-variable=thread_cache_size=128
set-variable=wait_timeout=35
set-variable=connect_timeout=10
set-variable=tmp_table_size=64M
set-variable=max_heap_table_size=64M
set-variable=max_allowed_packet=64M
set-variable=max_connect_errors=10
set-variable=thread_concurrency=8
set-variable=concurrent_insert=2
set-variable=max_allowed_packet=64M
set-variable=max_connect_errors=10
set-variable=table_lock_wait_timeout=30
set-variable=read_rnd_buffer_size=786432
set-variable=bulk_insert_buffer_size=8M
set-variable=query_cache_limit=4M
set-variable=query_cache_size=64M
set-variable=query_cache_type=1
set-variable=query_prealloc_size=262144
set-variable=query_alloc_block_size=65536
set-variable=transaction_alloc_block_size=8192
set-variable=transaction_prealloc_size=4096
set-variable=default-storage-engine=MyISAM
# To allow mysqld to connect to a MySQL Cluster management daemon, uncomment
# these lines and adjust the connectstring as needed.
#ndbcluster
#ndb-connectstring="nodeid=4;host=localhost:1186"
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
nice = -5
open_files_limit = 8192
[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M
[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 64M
sort_buffer = 64M
read_buffer = 16M
write_buffer = 16M
[ndbd]
# If you are running a MySQL Cluster storage daemon (ndbd) on this machine,
# adjust its connection to the management daemon here.
# Note: ndbd init script requires this to include nodeid!
connect-string="nodeid=2;host=localhost:1186"
[ndb_mgm]
# connection string for MySQL Cluster management tool
connect-string="host=localhost:1186"