Jason Clawson

Fairly recently, I did some performance tuning on our MySQL servers and discovered some very interesting things.  The previous “DBA” had the mantra of “set the value higher and it will go faster.”  We are running some pretty beefy hardware so I can definitely see where this logic would come in to play.  I became concerned when my little laptop with a default MySQL installation was getting better performance than our 8 gig of Ram, dual processor quad core monster server.

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