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How much RAM for a large database on a dedicated MySQL InnoDB server?

Hereunder my hardware config: CPU: 1x Intel Xeon X3470 Quad core @ 2.93GHz RAM: 4x 8GB DDR3 Disks: 2 x SATA 320GB for the system & 4 x SAS 300GB for the DB I've upgraded from 12Gb to 32Gb and ...
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consequences of using “innodb_flush_method = O_DIRECT” without having a battery backed write cache? or on a KVM guest?

Mysql 5.5.29 Innodb- 128GB Ram - 32 cores - Raid 10 SSD. Our server which is a dedicated KVM guest on a 'baremetal' is hosting our heavy read-write DB server. Everything is file-per-table. ...
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Set up replication and migrate to InnoDB with low downtime

Current situation is this: I have a large legacy DB using only MyISAM tables, the size of whole DB is 4GiB, one of the tables contains over 10 million rows, so it is pretty large. The database is ...
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Choosing between MyISAM & InnoDB - two servers with related tables

I don't want to make a mistake. I am about to put my website online and I admit I haven't thought about which MySQL engine to choose: MyISAM or InnoDB. I read here and there that InnoDB should be ...
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Error connecting to DB

In regards to: http://serverfault.com/questions/442218/remounting-mysql-under-a-new-mount-point Everything is running. MySQL started but for websites they can not connect to the mysql database at ...
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innodb_force_recovery when InnoDB corruption

When I start mysqld (in /etc/init.d), it failed with InnoDB: corruption in the InnoDB tablespace. What's the best innodb_force_recovery value to force mysqld to start? I have tried 4 and 6, but ...
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Should we need to use Barriers on a production database (MySQL/InnoDB)?

Even though we are using a journaling filesystem (EXT3) with barrier enabled, is this still safer and recommended? e.g mount -o barrier=1 /dev/sda /mntpnt Reference: ...
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Why using innodb_file_per_table?

There are many articles exaggerating (IMHO of course) the need for innodb_file_per_table. I understand that with innodb_file_per_table, there should be a better control over the individual tables; ...
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How to set a specific directory location for individual MySQL database?

Is it possible to set each database in MySQL to use a separate datadir? I'm running a userdir development (sandbox) server and would like to put the MySQL data files for the database(s) for that user ...
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MySQL said “InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M”, does it mean it is using 128MB RAM?

I am just using a very few InnoDB tables (e.g. less than 1MB), but during MySQL startup, it said InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M Does it mean even I am using in such a small size, ...