On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Maybe you need to increase your InnoDB buffer pool size.
You should probably read something like this on basic InnoDB configuration:
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/11/01/innodb-performance-optimizati...
If you keep the default values, like 8M buffer pool, you're not going to get a functioning database under any reasonable load. Using MyISAM with MediaWiki may cause problems and is not recommended, although it will probably more or less work.