I had an article published about MySQL tuning a while ago: http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2011/02/10/understanding-disk-i-o-when-should-you-be-worried http:

I had an article published about MySQL tuning a while ago: http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2011/02/10/understanding-disk-i-o-when-should-you-be-worried http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2011/02/10/understanding-d... Always tune for your workload. Be sure to index your damn tables. And yes, measure.