How to reduce the load from Disk by improving my.ini settings for MySQL

Question

I have created a time tracking app which captures every minute activity of 400 people.

Means if no one query my database I still have 400 insert request to MySQL every minute.

Everything working fine till now but then I have to give the user a dashboard where they can see every entry of their tracked time.

Now I have 400 people querying my database, after launching query page the system becomes very slow, Disk usage go to 100% much time. I'm planning to deploy more apps on the server but before moving forward I want to solve this problem.

I'm thinking of changing my hard disk from HHD to SSD to increase read-write speed but wondering If there are any settings I can tweak in my default my.ini file to get better MySQL performance

Below is the my.ini file I have modified with the help of my-innodb-heavy-4G.ini my PC running MySQL 10.1.36-MariaDB,64bit, 3.60GHz, i7 with 8 GB RAM.

I just wanted to know if the below settings are correct or not. I don't want my server to crash and stop working. Please help me in addition or deletion of any setting line which can cause an issue.

[client] 
# password       = your_password 
port            = 3306 
socket          = "E:/xampp2/mysql/mysql.sock"


# Here follows entries for some specific programs 

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
port= 3306
socket = "E:/xampp2/mysql/mysql.sock"
basedir = "E:/xampp2/mysql" 
tmpdir = "E:/xampp2/tmp" 
datadir = "E:/xampp2/mysql/data"
pid_file = "mysql.pid"
# enable-named-pipe
key_buffer_size = 32M
max_allowed_packet = 16M

#
back_log = 50
slow_query_log
long_query_time = 8

#
table_open_cache = 2048
binlog_cache_size = 5M
max_heap_table_size = 64M
join_buffer_size = 8M
tmp_table_size = 64M

sort_buffer_size = 8M
net_buffer_length = 8M
read_buffer_size = 8M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 32M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 128M
bulk_insert_buffer_size = 64M
myisam_max_sort_file_size = 10G
myisam_repair_threads = 1
myisam_recover

#
thread_cache_size = 8M
query_cache_size = 64M
query_cache_limit = 2M
thread_concurrency = 8M
thread_stack = 240K

max_connections = 5000
log_error = "mysql_error.log"


plugin_dir = "E:/xampp2/mysql/lib/plugin/" 

server-id   = 1


innodb_data_home_dir = "E:/xampp2/mysql/data"
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
innodb_log_group_home_dir = "E:/xampp2/mysql/data"


innodb_buffer_pool_size = 2G
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 200M

innodb_log_file_size = 256M
innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 120
innodb_write_io_threads = 8
innodb_read_io_threads = 8
innodb_thread_concurrency = 16
innodb_log_files_in_group = 3
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct = 90


[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash



[myisamchk]
key_buffer_size = 512M
sort_buffer_size = 512M
read_buffer = 8M
write_buffer = 8M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout

Answer 1

Please try this:

# Example MySQL config file for small systems. 
# 
# This is for a system with little memory (<= 64M) where MySQL is only used 
# from time to time and it's important that the mysqld daemon 
# doesn't use much resources. 
# 
# You can copy this file to 
# E:/xampp2/mysql/bin/my.cnf to set global options, 
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this 
# installation this directory is E:/xampp2/mysql/data) or 
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options. 
# 
# In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports. 
# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program 
# with the "--help" option. 
# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients 

[client]

# password       = your_password 
port            = 3306 
socket          = "E:/xampp2/mysql/mysql.sock" 
# Here follows entries for some specific programs 
# The MySQL server 

[mysqld]
port= 3306 
socket = "E:/xampp2/mysql/mysql.sock" 
basedir = "E:/xampp2/mysql" 
tmpdir = "E:/xampp2/tmp" 
datadir = "E:/xampp2/mysql/data" 
pid_file = "mysql.pid" 
# enable-named-pipe 
key_buffer_size = 32M 
max_allowed_packet = 16M 
# back_log = 50
slow_query_log 
long_query_time = 8 
# table_open_cache = 2048 
binlog_cache_size = 5M 
max_heap_table_size = 64M 
join_buffer_size = 8M 
tmp_table_size = 64M 
sort_buffer_size = 8M 
net_buffer_length = 8M 
read_buffer_size = 8M 
read_rnd_buffer_size = 32M 
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 128M 
bulk_insert_buffer_size = 64M 
myisam_max_sort_file_size = 10G 
myisam_repair_threads = 1 myisam_recover 
# thread_cache_size = 8M 
query_cache_size = 64M 
query_cache_limit = 2M 
thread_concurrency = 8M 
thread_stack = 240K 
max_connections = 5000 
log_error = "mysql_error.log" 
# Change here for bind listening 
# bind-address="127.0.0.1" 
# bind-address = ::1          # for ipv6 

# Where do all the plugins live 
plugin_dir = "E:/xampp2/mysql/lib/plugin/" 
# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement, 
# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host. 
# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes. 
# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows 
# (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless! 
# 
# commented in by lampp security 
#skip-networking 
#skip-federated 
# Replication Master Server (default) 
# binary logging is required for replication 
# log-bin deactivated by default since XAMPP 1.4.11 
#log-bin=mysql-bin 
# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1 
# defaults to 1 if master-host is not set 
# but will not function as a master if omitted server-id    = 1 
# Replication Slave (comment out master section to use this) 
# 
# To configure this host as a replication slave, you can choose between 
# two methods : 
# 
# 1) Use the CHANGE MASTER TO command (fully described in our manual) - 
#    the syntax is: 
# 
#    CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=<host>, MASTER_PORT=<port>, 
#    MASTER_USER=<user>, MASTER_PASSWORD=<password> ; 
# 
#    where you replace <host>, <user>, <password> by quoted strings and 
#    <port> by the master's port number (3306 by default). 
# 
#    Example: 
# 
#    CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='125.564.12.1', MASTER_PORT=3306, 
#    MASTER_USER='joe', MASTER_PASSWORD='secret'; 
# 
# OR 
# 
# 2) Set the variables below. However, in case you choose this method, then 
#    start replication for the first time (even unsuccessfully, for example 
#    if you mistyped the password in master-password and the slave fails to 
#    connect), the slave will create a master.info file, and any later 
#    change in this file to the variables' values below will be ignored and 
#    overridden by the content of the master.info file, unless you shutdown 
#    the slave server, delete master.info and restart the slaver server. 
#    For that reason, you may want to leave the lines below untouched 
#    (commented) and instead use CHANGE MASTER TO (see above) 
# 
# required unique id between 2 and 2^32 - 1 
# (and different from the master) 
# defaults to 2 if master-host is set 
# but will not function as a slave if omitted 
#server-id       = 2 
# 
# The replication master for this slave - required 
#master-host     =   <hostname> 
# 
# The username the slave will use for authentication when connecting 
# to the master - required 
#master-user     =   <username> 
# 
# The password the slave will authenticate with when connecting to 
# the master - required 
#master-password =   <password> 
# 
# The port the master is listening on. 
# optional - defaults to 3306 
#master-port     =  <port> 
# 
# binary logging - not required for slaves, but recommended 
#log-bin=mysql-bin 
# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks 
#
tmpdir = "E:/xampp2/tmp" 
#log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname 
# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables 
#bdb_cache_size = 40M 
#bdb_max_lock = 10000 
# Comment the following if you are using InnoDB tables 
#skip-innodb 
innodb_data_home_dir = "E:/xampp2/mysql/data" 
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend 
innodb_log_group_home_dir = "E:/xampp2/mysql/data" 
#innodb_log_arch_dir = "E:/xampp2/mysql/data" 
#
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 % 
#
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high 
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 2G 
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 200M 
#
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size 
innodb_log_file_size = 256M 
innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M 
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1 
innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 120 
innodb_write_io_threads = 8 
innodb_read_io_threads = 8 
innodb_thread_concurrency = 16 
innodb_log_files_in_group = 3 
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct = 90 
#
# UTF 8 Settings 
#init-connect=\'SET NAMES utf8\' 
#collation_server=utf8_unicode_ci 
#character_set_server=utf8 
#skip-character-set-client-handshake 
#character_sets-dir="E:/xampp2/mysql/share/charsets" 

[mysqldump]
quick 
max_allowed_packet = 16M 

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash 
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL 
#safe-updates 

[myisamchk]

key_buffer_size = 512M 
sort_buffer_size = 512M 
read_buffer = 8M 
write_buffer = 8M 

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout