MySQL Slow Writes

OBSERVATION #1

The very first thing that catches my eye is the table structure

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `productsCategories` (
  `categoriesId` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `productsId` int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`categoriesId`,`productsId`),
  KEY `categoriesId` (`categoriesId`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

Please notice that the categoriesId index and the PRIMARY KEY start with the same column. It is a redundant index. Since this table is InnoDB, the categoriesId index is redundant for another reason: All secondary indexes contains keys into gen_clust_index (aka Clustered Index; See what is gen_clust_index used for in mysql?)

If you remove the categoriesId index with

ALTER TABLE productsCategories DROP INDEX categoriesId;

this will improve INSERTs dramatically because of not having to do extra Secondary and Clustered index maintenance.

OBSERVATION #2

If you are doing any bulk insert operations, you need a large bulk insert buffer.

Please see my past posts on this:

• https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/16979/877
• https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/9893/877
• https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/2948/877

OBSERVATION #3

Your log file size is way too small !!! It should be 25% of the InnoDB Buffer Pool, which in your case should be 1G. See my post on how to resize InnoDB Log Files.

OBSERVATION #4

Please, do not set innodb_thread_concurrency !!! I learned firsthand at Percona Live NYC to leave that setting alone. It is disabled by default in MySQL 5.5, MySQL 5.1 InnoDB Plugin, and Percona Server 5.1+.

OBSERVATION #5

You need to use innodb_file_per_table. If this is disabled, I make file maintenance on ibdata1 a nightmare. Please read my post on how to cleanup InnoDB to implement this.

OBSERVATION #6

If you are using MySQL 5.5 or Percona Server, you have to set certain options to make InnoDB use mutiple CPUs/multiple cores. Please see my post on those settings.

OBSERVATION #7

You have innodb_log_buffer_size=4M. The default is 8M. That will cause twice as much flushing to the redo logs. That will also counteract your innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2setting. Please set it to 32M. Also, please see MySQL Documentation on innodb_log_buffer_size.

In light of these observations, please add or replace the following settings:

[mysqld]
innodb_thread_concurrency = 0
innodb_read_io_threads = 64
innodb_write_io_threads = 64
innodb_io_capacity = 5000
innodb_file_per_table
innodb_log_file_size=1G
innodb_log_buffer_size=1G
bulk_insert_buffer_size = 256M