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To eliminate these you will have to rewrite your queries to avoid those conditions (Within a temporary table: Presence of a BLOB or TEXT column or presence of a column bigger than 512 bytes) as mentioned in the beginning of an <a href=\".\/url.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnote.php%3Fnote_id%3D10150111255065841%26comments&amp;token=9f4b1173dc5f5fc3605de568f46b6dce\">Article by the Pythian Group<\/a>","justification":"11.8% of all temporary tables are being written to disk, this value should be below 25%","id":"Percentage of temp tables on disk"},{"name":"MyISAM key buffer size","precondition":"!PMA_DRIZZLE","formula":"key_buffer_size","test":"value == 0","issue":"Key buffer is not initialized. 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It might be worth considering to use <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/refman\/5.5\/en\/ha-memcached.html\">memcached<\/a> instead of the MySQL Query cache, especially if you have multiple slaves.","justification":"The query cache is enabled and the server receives %d queries per second. This rule fires if there is more than 100 queries per second. | round(value,1)"},{"name":"Query cache efficiency (%)","precondition":"!PMA_DRIZZLE && Com_select + Qcache_hits > 0 && !fired('Query cache disabled')","formula":"Qcache_hits \/ (Com_select + Qcache_hits) * 100","test":"value < 20","issue":"Query cache not running efficiently, it has a low hit rate.","recommendation":"Consider increasing {query_cache_limit}.","justification":"The current query cache hit rate of %s% is below 20% | round(value,1)"},{"name":"Query Cache usage","precondition":"!fired('Query cache disabled') && !PMA_DRIZZLE","formula":"100 - Qcache_free_memory \/ query_cache_size * 100","test":"value < 80","issue":"Less than 80% of the query cache is being utilized.","recommendation":"This might be caused by {query_cache_limit} being too low. Flushing the query cache might help as well.","justification":"The current ratio of free query cache memory to total query cache size is %s%. It should be above 80% | round(value,1)"},{"name":"Query cache fragmentation","precondition":"!fired('Query cache disabled') && !PMA_DRIZZLE","formula":"Qcache_free_blocks \/ (Qcache_total_blocks \/ 2) * 100","test":"value > 20","issue":"The query cache is considerably fragmented.","recommendation":"Severe fragmentation is likely to (further) increase Qcache_lowmem_prunes. This might be caused by many Query cache low memory prunes due to {query_cache_size} being too small. For a immediate but short lived fix you can flush the query cache (might lock the query cache for a long time). Carefully adjusting {query_cache_min_res_unit} to a lower value might help too, e.g. you can set it to the average size of your queries in the cache using this formula: (query_cache_size - qcache_free_memory) \/ qcache_queries_in_cache","justification":"The cache is currently fragmented by %s% , with 100% fragmentation meaning that the query cache is an alternating pattern of free and used blocks. This value should be below 20%. | round(value,1)"},{"name":"Query cache low memory prunes","precondition":"!PMA_DRIZZLE && Qcache_inserts > 0 && !fired('Query cache disabled')","formula":"Qcache_lowmem_prunes \/ Qcache_inserts * 100","test":"value > 0.1","issue":"Cached queries are removed due to low query cache memory from the query cache.","recommendation":"You might want to increase {query_cache_size}, however keep in mind that the overhead of maintaining the cache is likely to increase with its size, so do this in small increments and monitor the results.","justification":"The ratio of removed queries to inserted queries is %s%. The lower this value is, the better (This rules firing limit: 0.1%) | round(value,1)"},{"name":"Query cache max size","precondition":"!fired('Query cache disabled')","formula":"query_cache_size","test":"value > 1024 * 1024 * 128","issue":"The query cache size is above 128 MiB. Big query caches may cause significant overhead that is required to maintain the cache.","recommendation":"Depending on your environment, it might be performance increasing to reduce this value.","justification":"Current query cache size: %s | implode(' ',ADVISOR_formatByteDown(value, 2, 2))"},{"name":"Query cache min result size","precondition":"!fired('Query cache disabled')","formula":"query_cache_limit","test":"value == 1024*1024","issue":"The max size of the result set in the query cache is the default of 1 MiB.","recommendation":"Changing {query_cache_limit} (usually by increasing) may increase efficiency. This variable determines the maximum size a query result may have to be inserted into the query cache. If there are many query results above 1 MiB that are well cacheable (many reads, little writes) then increasing {query_cache_limit} will increase efficiency. Whereas in the case of many query results being above 1 MiB that are not very well cacheable (often invalidated due to table updates) increasing {query_cache_limit} might reduce efficiency.","justification":"query_cache_limit is set to 1 MiB"},{"name":"Percentage of MyISAM key buffer used","precondition":"!PMA_DRIZZLE && key_buffer_size > 0 && !fired('Max % MyISAM key buffer ever used')","formula":"( 1 - Key_blocks_unused * key_cache_block_size \/ key_buffer_size) * 100","test":"value < 95","issue":"MyISAM key buffer (index cache) % used is low.","recommendation":"You may need to decrease the size of {key_buffer_size}, re-examine your tables to see if indexes have been removed, or examine queries and expectations about what indexes are being used.","justification":"% MyISAM key buffer used: %s%, this value should be above 95% | round(value,1)"},{"name":"Is InnoDB disabled?","precondition":"!PMA_DRIZZLE && PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION < 50600","formula":"have_innodb","test":"value != \"YES\"","issue":"You do not have InnoDB enabled.","recommendation":"InnoDB is usually the better choice for table engines.","justification":"have_innodb is set to 'value'"},{"name":"Max InnoDB log size","precondition":"innodb_buffer_pool_size > 0 && innodb_log_file_size \/ innodb_buffer_pool_size * 100 < 30","formula":"innodb_log_file_size \/ (1024 * 1024)","test":"value > 256","issue":"The InnoDB log file size is inadequately large.","recommendation":"It is usually sufficient to set {innodb_log_file_size} to 25% of the size of {innodb_buffer_pool_size}. A very big {innodb_log_file_size} slows down the recovery time after a database crash considerably. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysqlperformanceblog.com\/2006\/07\/03\/choosing-proper-innodb_log_file_size\/\">this Article<\/a>. You need to shutdown the server, remove the InnoDB log files, set the new value in my.cnf, start the server, then check the error logs if everything went fine. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/increase-innodblogfilesize-proper-way.html\">this blog entry<\/a>","justification":"Your absolute InnoDB log size is %s MiB | round(value,1)"}],"errors":[]}}