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From Mark at Griffith Uni -
We use an enterprise hosted MySQL ie. remote to our vivo server via gigabit ethernet.  In this configuration we have found MySQL to be a real performance bottleneck.  Here are some parameters that we have found it worthwhile experimenting with:
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2
  • this resulted in about a 3x speedup (especially for big ingests)

tmp_table_size

max_heap_table_size

key_buffer_size (needed because many of our queries include a group or sort)

Writing the MySQL transaction log

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