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MIT Students Love iPhone-Powered Doors, Hate Actual Keys | Popular Science
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Chris Varenhorst, the MIT engineering student responsible for this hydraulic-powered door that can be opened with the tap of an iPhone app or the rap of a secret knock sequence, says that after a long day of studying, he doesn’t want to waste time messing with keys. We have a different theory.
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Choosing innodb_buffer_pool_size | MySQL Performance Blog
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My last post about Innodb Performance Optimization got a lot of comments choosing proper innodb_buffer_pool_size and indeed I oversimplified things a bit too much, so let me write a bit better description.
Innodb Buffer Pool is by far the most important option for Innodb Performance and it must be set correctly. I’ve seen a lot of clients which came through extreme sufferings leaving it at default value (8M). So if you have dedicated MySQL Box and you’re only using Innodb tables you will want to give all memory you do not need for other needs for Innodb Buffer Pool.
This of course assumes your database is large so you need large buffer pool, if not – setting buffer pool a bit larger than your database size will be enough. You also should account for growth of course. You need buffer pool a bit (say 10%) larger than your data (total size of Innodb TableSpaces) because it does not only contain data pages – it also contain adaptive hash indexes, insert buffer, locks which also take some time. Though it is not as critical – for most workloads if you will have your Innodb Buffer Pool 10% less than your database size you would not loose much anyway.
You also may choose to set buffer pool as if your database size is already larger than amount of memory you have – so you do not forget to readjust it later. This is also valid approach as if it is Dedicated MySQL Server you may not have a good use for that memory anyway.
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The next step would be to decide How Much Memory do you need for other needs. This needs would be OS needs – your system processes, page tables, socket buffers etc all need memory. I would put this to 256M for small sized boxes to 5% of memory size on the big boxes, though it can be even less than that. Besides Operating System needs you also have MySQL needs – these include MySQL buffers – query cache, key_buffer, mysql threads, temporary tables, per thread sort buffer which can be allocated. There are also things like innodb additional memory pool (which can grow more than memory you allocated for it, especially in case you have large amount of tables).
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Finding out largest tables on MySQL Server | MySQL Performance Blog
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Dr. Dobb’s | Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science | June 4, 2009
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Credentialing and accreditation in the traditional sense (diplomas) will become less important as the student’s work product becomes more available to be sampled and measured online. 
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