Tuning (and understanding) table_cache in mySQL
- by jotango
Hello,
I ran the excellent MySQL performance tuning script and started to work through the suggestions. One I ran into was
TABLE CACHE
Current table_cache value = 4096 tables
You have a total of 1073 tables.
You have 3900 open tables.
Current table_cache hit rate is 2%, while 95% of your table cache is in use.
You should probably increase your table_cache
I started to read up on the table_cache but found the MySQL documentation quite lacking. They do say to increase the table_cache, "if you have the memory". Unfortunately the table_cache variable is defined as "The number of open tables for all threads."
How will the memory used by MySQL change, if I increase this variable? What is a good value, to set it to?