MySQL Configuration and tuning InnoDB performance
Example
There are hundreds of settings that can be placed in my.cnf. For the 'lite' user of MySQL, they won't matter as much.
Once your database becomes non-trivial, it is advisable to set the following parameters:
innodb_buffer_pool_size
This should be set to about 70% of available RAM (if you have at least 4GB of RAM; a smaller percentage if you have a tiny VM or antique machine). The setting controls the amount of cache used by the InnoDB ENGINE. Hence, it is very important for performance of InnoDB.
