Title: "The Impact of Swapping on MySQL Performance" Date: 2017-01-13 17:17:00 Categories: [data base] tags: [mysql, mariadb, percona]
It’s common sense that when you’re running MySQL (or really any other DBMS) you don’t want to see any I/O in your swap space. Scaling the cache size (using innodb_buffer_pool_size in MySQL’s case) is standard practice to make sure there is enough free memory so swapping isn’t needed.