Optimum MYSQL settings

[Dave]

Hi all.  I promise this is my last question before I flip the switch on
this new installation.

I was using 1.1.7 and I had a number of problems  with sqlippool 
handing out duplicate IPs, stop records not getting recorded, etc.  Only
under many requests (20-30) at one time. It was ok with small load.

I have 2.1.3 ready to go but am not sure Im going to suffer from the
same problems.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to set up mysql to optimize its
performance for sqlippool? 
It seemed that if two requests come in right at the right time, it would
hand out the same IP to 2 different users before there was a chance it
was recorded.


Its a dual core 3.0ghz machine that also has mysql running for mail
server authentication for about 220 users. This is my current config.

# /etc/mysql/my.cnf: The global mysql configuration file.
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-db/mysql/files/my.cnf-4.1,v 1.3
2006/05/05 19:51:40 chtekk Exp $

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client]
#password                                       = your_password
port                                            = 3306
socket                                          =
/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

[mysql]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqladmin]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlcheck]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqldump]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlimport]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlshow]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[myisamchk]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets

[myisampack]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets

# use [safe_mysqld] with mysql-3
[mysqld_safe]
err-log                                         = /var/log/mysql/mysql.err

# add a section [mysqld-4.1] or [mysqld-5.0] for specific configurations
[mysqld]
max_connections = 500
character-set-server            = utf8
default-character-set           = utf8
user                                            = mysql
port                                            = 3306
socket                                          =
/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
pid-file                                        = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
log-error                                       = /var/log/mysql/mysqld.err
basedir                                         = /usr
datadir                                         = /var/lib/mysql
skip-locking
key_buffer                                      = 64M
max_allowed_packet                      = 8M
table_cache                             = 64
sort_buffer_size                        = 2M
net_buffer_length                       = 8K
read_buffer_size                        = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size            = 512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size         = 8M
language                                        = /usr/share/mysql/english
# old_passwords                   = 1

# security:
# using "localhost" in connects uses sockets by default
# skip-networking
#bind-address                           = 127.0.0.1

log-bin
server-id                                       = 1

# point the following paths to different dedicated disks
tmpdir                                          = /tmp/
#log-update                             =
/path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname

# you need the debug USE flag enabled to use the following directives,
# if needed, uncomment them, start the server and issue
# #tail -f /tmp/mysqld.sql /tmp/mysqld.trace
# this will show you *exactly* what's happening in your server ;)

#log                                            = /tmp/mysqld.sql
#gdb
#debug                                          = d:t:i:o,/tmp/mysqld.trace
#one-thread

# uncomment the following directives if you are using BDB tables
#bdb_cache_size                         = 4M
#bdb_max_lock                           = 10000

# the following is the InnoDB configuration
# if you wish to disable innodb instead
# uncomment just the next line
#skip-innodb
#
# the rest of the innodb config follows:
# don't eat too much memory, we're trying to be safe on 64Mb boxes
# you might want to bump this up a bit on boxes with more RAM
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
# this is the default, increase it if you have lots of tables
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
#
# i'd like to use /var/lib/mysql/innodb, but that is seen as a database :-(
# and upstream wants things to be under /var/lib/mysql/, so that's the route
# we have to take for the moment
#innodb_data_home_dir           = /var/lib/mysql/
#innodb_log_arch_dir            = /var/lib/mysql/
#innodb_log_group_home_dir      = /var/lib/mysql/
# you may wish to change this size to be more suitable for your system
# the max is there to avoid run-away growth on your machine
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend:max:128M
# we keep this at around 25% of of innodb_buffer_pool_size
# sensible values range from 1MB to
(1/innodb_log_files_in_group*innodb_buffer_pool_size)
innodb_log_file_size = 5M
# this is the default, increase it if you have very large transactions
going on
innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
# this is the default and won't hurt you
# you shouldn't need to tweak it
set-variable = innodb_log_files_in_group=2
# see the innodb config docs, the other options are not always safe
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet                      = 16M

[mysql]
# uncomment the next directive if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer                                      = 20M
sort_buffer_size                        = 20M
read_buffer                             = 2M
write_buffer                            = 2M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer                                      = 20M
sort_buffer_size                        = 20M
read_buffer                             = 2M
write_buffer                            = 2M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout


Thanks for any suggestions!