Stephen, by the way, if you're not already aware of it: You probably want to set innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 0.
The default value of this setting is 1, which causes the log buffer to be written out to the lgo file and the logfile flushed to disk at every transaction commit. (Which obviously has a performance impact.) With a setting of 0, nothing is done at transaction commit, but the log buffer is written to the log file and the log file flushed to disk once per second. There is a potential with this setting that up to the last full second of transactions can be list in the event of a mysqld crash, but ... if mysqld crashes in the middle of Bacula inserting attributes, that job is blown *anyway*, so there's really no loss. I also suggest innodb_autoinc_lock_mode = 2, which allows InnoDB to interleave auto_increment inserts. This may possibly help with your locking problem. Keep in mind though that if you use this setting and you have replication running, your binlog_format must be set to MIXED or ROW. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users