Added some new code to Kontrollbase to allow you to view the cnf file on each host, as well as all of the global variables and global status information that was collected from the most recent polling period. Here are some screencaps.
Posts in category CNF
A quick rundown of per-thread buffers
I saw something interesting today when helping out someone on the #mysql IRC channel. It was a cnf file that was designed to destroy a server. Before I get into the why-not, here are the goods:
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read_buffer = 128M
join_buffer = 128M
key_buffer = 512M
max_allowed_packet = 200M
thread_stack [...]
MySQL and DNS woes?
A quick solution to a common problem: your MySQL server has thousands of connections, some or most are not persistent. Unless you say otherwise, MySQL will check connections hostnames against the system DNS server. While this is generally not a problem with low traffic, when you are dealing with many concurrent connections you are not only [...]





