In the last weeks / months, I have been working on understanding / improving MySQL startup with many tables.  I already wrote five posts on the subject, they are listed below.  In this post, I use the knowledge we gained in the previous two posts to show the interest of tuning InnoDB Tablespace Duplicate Check Threads, making startup 30% in one case (2:28 vs. 3:33) and 5% in

In the last weeks / months, I have been working on understanding / improving MySQL startup with many tables.  I already wrote four posts on the subject, they are listed below.  In this post, I use the system analysis of the previous post to revisit the light optimization on EBS volumes.  With this analysis, I am able to determine why the previous tests did not show

I have been scratching my head about MySQL startup for some time.  There is much to say about this, and many other posts will probably follow.  For now, it is enough to know that with many tables (millions) the startup of MySQL 8.0+ (including 8.0, 8.4 and 9.0) is suboptimal (to say the least).  With very little changes, I was able to speed it up, from 2:39 to 1:09 (1 minute and 9