The new PHP driver for MySQL is out! http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php-mysqlnd/ Anyone give it a whirl? Well we certainly did and its cool . You can read all about it by clicking the link at above. I especially like the stats that the new driver now presents to you. Here is a sample bytes_sent 68935 bytes_received 304237 [...] [...more]
It is important to optimize all pieces of the LAMP acronym and MySQL is not exception to the rule when deploying on the live servers Here be the compile time flags. export CFLAGS=”-O3 -march=cpu -pipe -msse2 -m3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=cpu” CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS=”-O3 -cpu -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti” As mentioned in my previous entry you can go check [...] [...more]
Everywhere on the web I read about using the hdparm utility to increase hard drive speed. However it seems that this utility does not support sata drives properly. I have access to at least 5 different machines that run linux with different sata hard drives but the hdparm command fails more or less on each [...] [...more]
