Will the percona build help performance with MyISAM tables

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Hi,

I searched around the web and this forum for this and couldn’t find an answer anywhere.

If I use MyISAM engine, will the percona build give my any performance boost?

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“Yes.”

It will not make MyISAM run faster. But it will make you more able to understand what the server is doing so you can get a lot more performance. Check out http://carymillsap.blogspot.com/2010/02/thinking-clearly-abo ut-performance.html

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Thank you!

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Is there a white paper or document that describes how to use the percona build to better understand what is going on?

I am expecting a significant traffic spike in about a week and am trying squeeze as much performance as I can out of my system. I’m looking at everything from db schema, query structures, system tuning.

Thanks,

Joe