HOWTO : MariaDB 5.2 on Ubuntu Server 10.10

Since MySQL is now owned by Oracle, the developers of previous MySQL reformed and developed MariaDB under GPL v2. It is compatible to MySQL and running much faster than MySQL too. You can use MariaDB as alternative. The commands and API are the same, such as "mysql -u root -p".

Step 1 :

Prepare for installation of MariaDB

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 1BB943DB

Step 2 :

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariadb.list

Append the following lines.

deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/mariadb/repo/5.2/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src http://mirrors.xmission.com/mariadb/repo/5.2/ubuntu maverick main

Save the change and install the following.

Step 3 :

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client

** You can also replace your MySQL to MariaDB in this way. The MySQL will be uninstall automatically. You can also use the my.cnf of MySQL without any problem or replace by the new one.

Step 4 : (Optional)

To tune the performance of MariaDB is the same as tuning MySQL. Please see this link for reference. The settings are the same.

That's all! See you.

HOWTO : MySQL and XCache performance tuning on Ubuntu 10.10

The following settings is for tuning the MySQL database performance on Ubuntu 10.10. It is well tested on Intel Xeon 4 core CPU x 2 and 8 GB RAM. It is also well tested on Drupal 6.2.

Step 1 :

sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Change the values as the following :

[mysqld_safe]
nice = -5

[mysqld]
key_buffer = 384M
thread_cache_size = 384
max_connections = 500
table_cache = 1800
# If you have 8 cores CPU, the value should be 16 (no. of processor x 2)
thread_concurrency = 16
query_cache_limit = 4M
query_cache_size = 128M

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 64M

Step 2 :

sudo restart mysql

Step 3 (Optional) :

If you are using Hiawatha Web Server and PHP5, the following settings will further tune the performance also.

sudo apt-get install php5-xcache

Step 3a (Optional) :

sudo nano /etc/php5/conf.d/xcache.ini

Change the value of xcache.size as the following :

xcache.size = 64M

Step 3b (Optional) :

sudo /etc/init.d/php-fcgi restart

Step 3c (Optional) :

To test if it is working or not :

sudo php-cgi -v

If you can see the "with XCache v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 2005-2009, by mOo", your xcache is working.

That's all! See you.