Sunday, November 26, 2017

MySQL and Linux Context Switches

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MySQL and Linux Context Switches
MySQL and Linux Context Switches

In this blog post, I'll look at MySQL and Linux context switches and what is the normal number per second for a database environment.

You might have heard many times about the importance of looking at the number of context switches to indicate if MySQL is suffering from the internal contention issues. I often get questions about what is a "normal" or "acceptable" number, and at what point you should worry about the number of context switches per second.

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