Thanks for your reply.
I have another question. Can you tell me what parameters can I can actually tune on the fly to effect the performance of an OLTP load (just an example) running on MySQL, if I can vary the amount of memory/cpu that is available to MySQL dynamically ? To clarify, I am working on a project with virtualization using Xen hypervisor. Xen has a control domain called dom0 and user defined number of user domains called domUs. So you may know that it is possible to vary the amount of memory and cpu_weight that is allocated to a particular domU from dom0. So I have a scenario where I have a domU with MySQL running inside, what I want to be able to do is to come up with a MySQL tunning configuration as a function of changing memory/cpu. Think of it as a ‘dynamic control problem’.
I’ll appreciate your reply.
-Umar