Operating System Requirements

MariaDB can be deployed on a number of operating platforms. The current supported platforms can be found in the MariaDB OS Compatibility Guide.

The relevant operating system and recommendations can be found below:

Operating System

Recommendations

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/ CentOS / Oracle Linux/Ubuntu/SUSE/Debian

The recommended settings for Linux operating systems can be found in theLinux Recommended Settings.

In addition to the existing best practices ensure that the number of requests per volume is set to a higher value. Increasing this value allows individual volumes to service more storage requests at any single time.

Add the following to the udev rules file for FlashArray to increase the maximum number of requests for a single volume:


Set DM devices number of requests to 1024 or higher. This uses 1MB of memory per request
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="dm-[0-9]*", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{DM_NAME}=="3624a937*", ATTR{queue/nr_requests}="1024"

Microsoft Windows Server

The best practices for Microsoft Windows can be set using the Validate Windows Server with Test-Pfa2WindowsBestPractices Cmdlet.