Category Archives: MySQL

innodb_flush_method defines the method for flushing data from RAM to disk.

Once I created a raid, mounted it as a disk system partition and transferred the MySQL directory directly to it, but in this case there were drawbacks, the lost+found directory could appear, it could not be used for other data, etc., after that I began to transfer the MySQL directory not directly to the partition, but created a directory on it and transferred it to it.

innodb_io_capacity – determines the number of write IOPS for background InnoDB tasks, such as flushing pages from a buffer pool, etc. If the cleanup operation is lagging, then InnoDB can perform cleanup more aggressively at a higher IOPS, which is defined in the innodb_io_capacity_max variable.

Partitioning tables in MySQL is splitting a large table into parts according to the specified criteria, which will speed up reading and writing data to it if this table contains a very large amount of data.

innodb_stats_on_metadata – Lets you collect statistics on metadata operations such as SHOW TABLE STATUS when accessing INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES or INFORMATION_SCHEMA.STATISTICS tables.
In newer versions of MySQL, the innodb_stats_on_metadata parameter is disabled by default, which makes working with these tables faster.