[ Thanks to Rudd-O
for this link. ]
“Continuing with the Server management series, this time we’ll
learn how to tune a MySQL server to handle high server loads.
Evidently, this piece assumes that you’re using MySQL to serve a
dynamic site. If this is not the case, you’ll still find this
article useful, but you’ll have to derive your own interpretations
out of it.“If you recall the article titled Tuning an Apache server in 5
minutes, you’ll also know that there’s a tunable for Apache which
lets you set the maximum number of Apache processes that run on
your server…”