I have a VPS Server at Vultr with 8GB Ram and 4vCPUs and am looking to get optimized mysql settings. I have a DB of around 170 InnoDB tables, but they mostly don't contain a lot of data. There are 2 MyISAM tables however with 150k rows each which I would like to increase to 350k.
The challenge here is that I do geo calculations in the table with long/lat data for every single calculation it has to go through the full 150k rows, determine which are the closest (within 5 miles) of distance and than give out only that data. This is obviously very resource hungry. Therefor increasing from 150k rows to 200k rows means the query takes 1sec longer while increasing to 350k rows takes an additional 3-4sec per query. I can't update the queries itself at this stage, but can only work on improving mysql as much as possible.
I already started updating my MySQL settings and greatly improved the performance. Here is the output from tuning-primer:
MySQL Version 5.5.55-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 x86_64
Uptime = 2 days 12 hrs 1 min 56 sec Avg. qps = 61 Total Questions = 2665033 Threads Connected = 3
SLOW QUERIES The slow query log is NOT enabled. Current long_query_time = 10.000000 sec. You have 0 out of 2665054 that take longer than 10.000000 sec. to complete Your long_query_time seems to be fine
BINARY UPDATE LOG The binary update log is NOT enabled. You will not be able to do point in time recovery See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/point-in-time-recovery.html
WORKER THREADS Current thread_cache_size = 8 Current threads_cached = 5 Current threads_per_sec = 0 Historic threads_per_sec = 0 Your thread_cache_size is fine
MAX CONNECTIONS Current max_connections = 151 Current threads_connected = 3 Historic max_used_connections = 9 The number of used connections is 5% of the configured maximum. You are using less than 10% of your configured max_connections. Lowering max_connections could help to avoid an over-allocation of memory See "MEMORY USAGE" section to make sure you are not over-allocating
INNODB STATUS Current InnoDB index space = 35 M Current InnoDB data space = 56 M Current InnoDB buffer pool free = 25 % Current innodb_buffer_pool_size = 128 M Depending on how much space your innodb indexes take up it may be safe to increase this value to up to 2 / 3 of total system memory
MEMORY USAGE Max Memory Ever Allocated : 4.48 G Configured Max Per-thread Buffers : 1.53 G Configured Max Global Buffers : 4.39 G Configured Max Memory Limit : 5.92 G Physical Memory : 7.79 G Max memory limit seem to be within acceptable norms
KEY BUFFER Current MyISAM index space = 79 M Current key_buffer_size = 256 M Key cache miss rate is 1 : 9866 Key buffer free ratio = 79 % Your key_buffer_size seems to be fine
QUERY CACHE Query cache is enabled Current query_cache_size = 4.00 G Current query_cache_used = 889 M Current query_cache_limit = 4 M Current Query cache Memory fill ratio = 21.71 % Current query_cache_min_res_unit = 4 K Your query_cache_size seems to be too high. Perhaps you can use these resources elsewhere MySQL won't cache query results that are larger than query_cache_limit in size
SORT OPERATIONS Current sort_buffer_size = 2 M Current read_rnd_buffer_size = 256 K Sort buffer seems to be fine
JOINS Current join_buffer_size = 4.00 M You have had 72592 queries where a join could not use an index properly join_buffer_size >= 4 M This is not advised You should enable "log-queries-not-using-indexes" Then look for non indexed joins in the slow query log.
OPEN FILES LIMIT Current open_files_limit = 2209 files The open_files_limit should typically be set to at least 2x-3x that of table_cache if you have heavy MyISAM usage. Your open_files_limit value seems to be fine
TABLE CACHE Current table_open_cache = 1024 tables Current table_definition_cache = 1024 tables You have a total of 702 tables You have 1024 open tables. Current table_cache hit rate is 55% , while 100% of your table cache is in use You should probably increase your table_cache
TEMP TABLES Current max_heap_table_size = 16 M Current tmp_table_size = 16 M Of 162009 temp tables, 1% were created on disk Created disk tmp tables ratio seems fine
TABLE SCANS Current read_buffer_size = 3 M Current table scan ratio = 66078 : 1 read_buffer_size seems to be fine
TABLE LOCKING Current Lock Wait ratio = 1 : 696683 Your table locking seems to be fine
Thanks for your help. If you need more information please ask! Would it help to upgrade to mysql 5.6 or 5.7?