Tuning LAMP systems, Part 3: Tuning your MySQL server

Applications using the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) architecture are constantly being developed and deployed. But often the server administrator has little control over the application itself because it's written by someone else. This series of three articles discusses many of the server configuration items that can make or break an application's performance. This third article, the last in the series, focuses on tuning the database layer for maximum efficiency.f

in LAMP Linux Apache MySQL PHP performance tuning Sean Walberg tttlca tttosca at 08.06.07