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Mastering MariaDB
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Mastering MariaDB

by Federico Razzoli
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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The table open cache

When a thread needs to access a table's physical file, a file descriptor is needed. To speed up the file access, MariaDB caches the file descriptors that are cached into the table open cache. This is even more useful if many MyISAM tables are contained in the same database. However, keep in mind that searching a file descriptor in this cache has a cost. If the cache cannot be big enough to contain all the needed descriptors, it could be better to disable it. A DBA may want to perform some tests to check whether table open cache is useful for a specific workload.

The table_open_cache server variable determines how many file descriptors are cached. This value should not exceed the maximum number of file descriptors allowed by ...

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