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Asking stupid questions and googling for them is fun some times...

Today I was asking myself if one could rise the file limit for a running MariaDB mysqld process online without restarting the database instance?

And I found an answer on serverfault: Set max file limit on a running process:

Linux system calls of MySQL process

We had the problem today that a MySQL Galera Cluster node with the multi-tenancy pattern caused a lot of system time (sy 75%, load average about 30 (you really must read this article by Brendan Gregg, it is w

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Table open cache too small

The Table Open Cache (table_open_cache or old name table_cache) is a cache to store file handles for all threads. The actual value of cache entries can be seen with the global status of open tables (Open_tables).
Increasing table_open_cache increases the number of file descriptors (open_files_limit) that MySQL requires.

Could not increase number of max_open_files

Hello all, on some Linux systems I get the following warning during my MySQL database start-up:
[Warning] Buffered warning: Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than 1024 (request: 8192)
[Warning] Buffered warning: Changed limits: max_connections: 214 (requested 505)
[Warning] Buffered warning: Changed limits: table_cache: 400 (requested 512)

What does it mean and is that something I should care about?

How MySQL behaves with many schemata, tables and partitions


Recently a customer claimed that his queries were slow some times and sometimes they were fast.

First idea: Flipping query execution plan caused by InnoDB could be skipped because it affected mainly MyISAM tables.

Second idea: Caching effects by either the file system cache caching MyISAM data or the MyISAM key buffer caching MyISAM indexes were examined: File system cache was huge and MyISAM key buffer was only used up to 25%.

I was a bit puzzled...

Configuration of MySQL for Shared Hosting

If you ask around about shared hosting setups with MySQL everybody is frightened. In fact it looks like shared hosting is one of the most difficult setups you can get.

The number of users is big, the number of tables huge and the load pattern is completely unpredictable and the queries often very, let us say: non-optimal.

Here one of the DBA wisdoms come into play: Controlling developers is like herding cats.

If you talk to the Shared MySQL Hoster they confirm that this setups are very demanding!

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