Answer by Rick James for Does freeing up disk space improve the performance...
Well, I disagree with most of what has been said so far in the Q&A.The OS, not the disk controller, decides where to put the next block. The OS's algorithms are pretty linear. The is a slight bit...
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Is the space used by database table files? if so, yes it could affect performance if the query must read data from disk. That is why it is always a good idea to defrag tables to free up unused space....
View ArticleAnswer by Josh Bonello for Does freeing up disk space improve the performance...
Can a lack of free disk space impact MySQL performance?Certainly a lack of disk space at all can prevent writes from happening. Especially when storage is beginning to become full (>90%, as a...
View ArticleDoes freeing up disk space improve the performance of MySQL?
We have a MySQL master server here which was not set up with any kind of management for the binary logs. Over time, the disk space (1 TB) was slowly filling up and it was noticed that the performance...
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