Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 21:52:05 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: John <vaughajj@jmu.edu> Subject: Re: Recovering mysql data - mysqlbinlog Message-ID: <200805012152.06354.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200805011913.DSZ93243@jmu.edu> References: <200805011913.DSZ93243@jmu.edu>
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On Thursday 01 May 2008 21:13:41 John wrote:
> Thank you Mel and Paul for the suggestions. From what I understand the
> general query log is more for debugging and the binary log is for point in
> time recovery and replication. I'll be adding a my.cnf file (using the
> my-large.cnf as a skeleton) soon. I'm glad the issue was caught earlier on
> and now I'm the wiser thanks to you guys. I wonder why the default is no.
> I can't think of anyone who wouldn't find the binary logging beneficial.
I can think of a reason for FreeBSD. The binary logs are never deleted and
upon every server restart a new one is created. If you're like me, developing
on a laptop with a webenvironment including 'Mysql server', shutting down
your laptop daily, you quickly find yourself having full /var partition.
People running dedicated or semi-dedicated MySQL installations, are encouraged
to tweak their installation anyway. The most common ones being:
- put the binary logs on a large enough disk, if possible a seperate disk
all together for performance.
- by default, /tmp is used for temporary sorting tables, when JOINs demand it.
If that's a small partition or worse a 64MB memory disk, expect to get in
trouble, system wide. Use the tmpdir configuration variable.
- thread_concurrency as indicated in the templates
- skip-networking for security if all traffic is local
- sort and key buffer + max_connections to limit/max out memory usage.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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