MySQL’s Slow Query Log

Zach suggested it last week, but it’s only now that I’ve gotten around to setting up MySQL’s slow query log.
It’s easy enough, you’ve just got to put a couple lines like this in your my.cnf (which is in /etc on my server):
log-slow-queries = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
long_query_time = 10
This should get most people running, but this story in [...]

Performance Optimization

A couple notes from the past few days of tweaks and fixes:

Hyper-threading has a huge effect on LAMP performance. 
From now on, I’ll have bad dreams about running MySQL without Query Caching in the way that I used to have nightmares about going to school wearing only my underwear. The difference is that big. 
WordPress rocks, but [...]