innodb_flush_logs_at_trx_commit 是否为Innodb比MyISAM慢1000倍而头大？看来也许你忘了修改这个参数了。默认值是 1，这意味着每次提交的更新事务（或者每个事务之外的语句）都会刷新到磁盘中，而这相当耗费资源，尤其是没有电池备用缓存时。很多应用程序，尤其是从 MyISAM转变过来的那些，把它的值设置为 2 就可以了，也就是不把日志刷新到磁盘上，而只刷新到操作系统的缓存上。日志仍然会每秒刷新到磁盘中去，因此通常不会丢失每秒1-2次更新的消耗。如果设置为 0 就快很多了，不过也相对不安全了 -- MySQL服务器崩溃时就会丢失一些事务。设置为 2 指挥丢失刷新到操作系统缓存的那部分事务。
table_cache - Opening tables can be expensive. For example MyISAM tables mark MYI header to mark table as currently in use. You do not want this to happen so frequently and it is typically best to size your cache so it is large enough to keep most of your tables open. It uses some OS resources and some memory but for modern hardware it is typically not the problem. 1024 is good value for applications with couple hundreds tables (remember each connection needs its own entry) if you have many connections or many tables increase it larger. I've seen values over 100.000 used.
table_cache -- 打开一个表的开销可能很大。例如MyISAM把MYI文件头标志该表正在使用中。你肯定不希望这种操作太频繁，所以通常要加大缓存数量，使得足以最大限度地缓存打开的表。它需要用到操作系统的资源以及内存，对当前的硬件配置来说当然不是什么问题了。如果你有200多个表的话，那么设置为 1024 也许比较合适（每个线程都需要打开表），如果连接数比较大那么就加大它的值。我曾经见过设置为 100,000 的情况。
thread_cache Thread creation/destructions can be expensive, which happen at each connect/disconnect. I normally set this value to at least 16. If application has large jumps in amount of concurrent connections and I see fast growth of
Threads_Created variable I boost it higher. The goal is not to have threads created in normal operation.
thread_cache -- 线程的创建和销毁的开销可能很大，因为每个线程的连接/断开都需要。我通常至少设置为 16。如果应用程序中有大量的跳跃并发连接并且 Threads_Created 的值也比较大，那么我就会加大它的值。它的目的是在通常的操作中无需创建新线程。
query_cache If your application is read intensive and you do not have application level caches this can be great help. Do not set it too large as it may slow things down as its maintenance may get expensive. Values from 32M to 512M normally make sense. Check it however after a while and see if it is well used. For certain workloads cache hit ratio is lower than would justify having it enabled.
query_cache -- 如果你的应用程序有大量读，而且没有应用程序级别的缓存，那么这很有用。不要把它设置太大了，因为想要维护它也需要不少开销，这会导致MySQL变慢。通常设置为 32-512Mb。设置完之后最好是跟踪一段时间，查看是否运行良好。在一定的负载压力下，如果缓存命中率太低了，就启用它。
