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Excerpts from Jay Pipes's message of 2014-02-13 07:19:18 -0800:
> * Identify settings that need to scale with the size of the underlying
> VM or host capabilities, and provide patches to the configuration file
> comments that clearly indicate a recommended scaling factor. Remember
> that folks writing Puppet modules, Ansible scripts, Salt SLS files, and
> Chef cookbooks look first to the configuration files to get an idea of
> how to set the values.

Indeed, and where possible make the setting a scaling factor rather than
an actual number. It would make configs more portable if you could just
do this in mysql's config file:

innodb_buffer_pool_size=80%

Rather than having to read the manual to see that they recommend it be
80% of system RAM.