I've been running Bacula on MySQL for more than five years on Ubuntu.  I
don't know why it changed.  I suppose there were big changes that came
in the MySQL 5 line.

Chas Douglass

On 11/13/2013 09:01 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 11/13/13 10:59, Charles Douglass wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> I know nothing about MySQL optimization.  I downloaded the
>> "mysqltuner.pl" script and I will run it after the next full backup to
>> see if it has any recommendations.
> The mysqltuner script is a pretty decent basic tool.  The thing you need
> to keep in mind regarding the "mysql-large", "mysql-huge" sample
> configurations that are STILL widely distributed in MySQL packages (and
> still widely used by the unsuspecting) is that most of those sample
> configurations were originally written back when a "large" server was
> one that might have as much as a whole 32MB of RAM.  These days, that is
> less than the compiled-in default size of some individual MySQL
> *buffers*.  So the unwary install the "suggested" configurations, and
> can't understand why MySQL is performing like a geriatric tortoise.
>
>


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