On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:22 PM, <dbrb2002-sql@stripped> wrote:
> On a high read/write load.. is it good to split log (binlogs, innodb txn logs) and
> data (all tables, innodb tablespace) in different partitions ?
>
> Anybody had any experience ?
>
> For example; out of 25 disks array with 142GB 10000rpm... I would like to keep few
> disks to logs and rest to data .. is it advised or better to keep everything in spool so
> that all spindles can be efficiently managed...
>
> Thanks in advance
>
You most certainly can get enhanced performance by putting your bin
log and transaction logs onto separate spindles.. Separate
partitions on the same physical device will be of little-to-no-value.
For systems like Oracle or DB2, this is part of the standard
installation drill. ON MySQL, I do not do this routinely, but I do
when I am expecting high, sustained loads,
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