I want to know how my system behaves under a high load. To do so I would like to artificially reduce the amount of memory available to MySQL. How should I do this?
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I want to know how my system behaves under a high load. To do so I would like to artificially reduce the amount of memory available to MySQL. How should I do this?
One possible solution would be to run the app and MySQL in a virtualized environment. You can generally control the RAM and number of CPUs to see how it would perform.
Check out http://www.virtualbox.org , it’s the best one I’ve used and it’s free.