Okay I see all kinds of tweaking for 4.012 but not a whole lot on 3.23 any things to make sure MYSQL stays on top of its game.

This is my my.cnf file

#Added by HostDirector Plugin Installer -- Don't remove -- begin
skip-networking

#Added by HostDirector Plugin Installer -- Don't remove -- end
set-variable = key_buffer=16M
set-variable = max_allowed_packet=1M
set-variable = thread_stack=128K
#log
[mysqldump]
quick
set-variable = max_allowed_packet=16M
[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
[isamchk]
set-variable = key_buffer=16M

BTW - What version are you running, as you really ought top be on 3.23.56 as earlier versions have big vunerabilities.

But I agree yes, I am not sure what is the best set up for it.

Hmmm... just looked at mine - and I have virtually nothing in mine - or am I looking at the wrong file? In fact I have none of the settings listed above

It is 3.23.56

Yeah it is funny as I was quite shocked as you are too. My my.cnf file is exactly what you see above except I removed the access information

There are so many things one could set or tweak so I thought I would ask the above question. There seems to be alot of tweaks for the new MYSQL for performance enhancement.

Hi,

at first, you should increase your key buffer.
The value should be the size of your MYI files plus 32 MB.

If you need a greater performance, I can tune your my.cnf
especially for your server ;-)

So long...

Indy

My my.cnf doesn't contain one single line that your does

Mind you just discovered that my httpd.conf had the wrong root in it for files - so none of my htaccess files were working.

So, if I have a table that is 1 gig in size and thus has a MYI that is ~ 1 gig I want to have a key buffer that is more than 1 gig?

You should run optimize table before.
And then you will see the real size used for the index.

And then, if you want to gat a low cache miss rate, you should set this size for your key buffer.
But remember, there are more than one tables ;-D

So long...

Indy