The CANDIS Blog

Excellent Results!

CPU

System load was DOWN. This is due to much better disk IO (reduced wait times) and as such, user processes get to breath and send stuff back to clients in a speedy fashion.

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I knew the config files were different between 7.4 and 8.1 and that some items merely changed names and some were deprecated.

I used this excellent resource before.

Even the very rudimentary tweaks I did, and with a RAID array that is in a 90% rebuild rate, background initialisation, this 8.1 version is FAST! I have no idea why people use MySQL, it really is such a piece of crud.