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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 4383929" data-attributes="member: 87">I know at least a couple users on here use mysql.  As of 2:37AM this morning this is the mysql.cnf settings the machine seems happy with - but I won't know for sure until the morning and noon rushes work. As it stands I'm getting page replies within half a second at the moment.[code]# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients[client]#password    = your_passwordport        = 3306socket        = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock# Here follows entries for some specific programs# The MySQL server[mysqld]port        = 3306socket        = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sockskip-lockingkey_buffer = 384M#max_allowed_packet = 1Mmax_allowed_packet = 2Mtable_cache = 512#sort_buffer_size = 2Msort_buffer_size = 4M#read_buffer_size = 2Mread_buffer_size = 4Mmyisam_sort_buffer_size = 64Mthread_cache = 8query_cache_size = 32M#max_connections = 650max_connections = 2048# Try number of CPU's*2 for thread_concurrencythread_concurrency = 8# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows# (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!# #skip-networking# Replication Master Server (default)# binary logging is required for replicationlog-bin# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1# defaults to 1 if master-host is not set# but will not function as a master if omittedserver-id    = 1# Replication Slave (comment out master section to use this)## To configure this host as a replication slave, you can choose between# two methods :## 1) Use the CHANGE MASTER TO command (fully described in our manual) -#    the syntax is:##    CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=<host>, MASTER_PORT=<port>,#    MASTER_USER=<user>, MASTER_PASSWORD=<password> ;##    where you replace <host>, <user>, <password> by quoted strings and#    <port> by the master's port number (3306 by default).##    Example:##    CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='125.564.12.1', MASTER_PORT=3306,#    MASTER_USER='joe', MASTER_PASSWORD='secret';## OR## 2) Set the variables below. However, in case you choose this method, then#    start replication for the first time (even unsuccessfully, for example#    if you mistyped the password in master-password and the slave fails to#    connect), the slave will create a master.info file, and any later#    change in this file to the variables' values below will be ignored and#    overridden by the content of the master.info file, unless you shutdown#    the slave server, delete master.info and restart the slaver server.#    For that reason, you may want to leave the lines below untouched#    (commented) and instead use CHANGE MASTER TO (see above)## required unique id between 2 and 2^32 - 1# (and different from the master)# defaults to 2 if master-host is set# but will not function as a slave if omitted#server-id       = 2## The replication master for this slave - required#master-host     =   <hostname>## The username the slave will use for authentication when connecting# to the master - required#master-user     =   <username>## The password the slave will authenticate with when connecting to# the master - required#master-password =   <password>## The port the master is listening on.# optional - defaults to 3306#master-port     =  <port>## binary logging - not required for slaves, but recommended#log-bin# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks#tmpdir        = /tmp/        #log-update     = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables#bdb_cache_size = 384M#bdb_max_lock = 100000# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables#innodb_data_home_dir = /var/lib/mysql/#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:2000M;ibdata2:10M:autoextend#innodb_log_group_home_dir = /var/lib/mysql/#innodb_log_arch_dir = /var/lib/mysql/# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high#innodb_buffer_pool_size = 384M#innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 20M# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size#innodb_log_file_size = 100M#innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1#innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50[mysqldump]quickmax_allowed_packet = 16M[mysql]no-auto-rehash# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL#safe-updates[isamchk]key_buffer = 64Msort_buffer_size = 64Mread_buffer = 32Mwrite_buffer = 32M[myisamchk]key_buffer = 64Msort_buffer_size = 64Mread_buffer = 32Mwrite_buffer = 32M[mysqlhotcopy]interactive-timeout[/code]Incidentally, if I comment out the log-bin line in this file will that stop the binary logs from clogging up the machine and can it be safely done?</blockquote>

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