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diff --git a/Docs/manual.texi b/Docs/manual.texi index 94683863d31..2aa64d7765e 100644 --- a/Docs/manual.texi +++ b/Docs/manual.texi @@ -25754,7 +25754,7 @@ in its own lock table and rolls back the transaction. If you use than InnoDB in the same transaction, then a deadlock may arise which InnoDB cannot notice. In cases like this the timeout is useful to resolve the situation. -@item @code{innodb_flush_method} @tab +@item @code{innodb_unix_file_flush_method} @tab (Available from 3.23.39 up.) The default value for this is @code{fdatasync}. Another option is @code{O_DSYNC}. @@ -26365,7 +26365,7 @@ In some versions of Linux and Unix, flushing files to disk with the Unix @code{fdatasync} and other similar methods is surprisingly slow. The default method InnoDB uses is the @code{fdatasync} function. If you are not satisfied with the database write performance, you may -try setting @code{innodb_flush_method} in @file{my.cnf} +try setting @code{innodb_unix_file_flush_method} in @file{my.cnf} to @code{O_DSYNC}, though O_DSYNC seems to be slower on most systems. You can also try setting it to @code{littlesync}, which means that InnoDB does not call the file flush for every write it does to a |