AL13N wrote: > Hi, > > As you all likely know, at mageia we replaced MySQL with MariaDB. > > When MariaDB devs told me that it seemed their biggest market was Windows, > I was really astounded. > > They then referred me to the feedback plug and this statistics page: > http://mariadb.org/feedback_plugin/stats/os/ > > The explanation is quite simple: > - Windows users need to download the version from MariaDB site (which has > feedback enabled by default). > - Linux users can get it from MariaDB site, or from their own distro. > (and > those versions don't have feedback enabled by default at all...) (for good > reason). > > Still, the numbers are completely wrong, and therefor, i urge all of you > to load the feedback plugin for all servers you manage! so that these > statistics can better influence both MariaDB and Mageia. > > How to enable feedback plugin? easy: > > 1. install mariadb-feedback package > 2. load it in your config file, by adding it to your plugin-load line: > > (in /etc/my.cnf ) > > plugin_dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin > plugin-load=ha_archive.so;ha_blackhole.so;ha_federatedx.so;feedback.so > > 3. if possible, if you're using KDE, your akonadi also uses mariadb. so > you can add this to your akonadi mariadb config file too, in mysqld > section: > > (in ~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf )
Could that file be overwritten in an update? There is a comment in that file that suggests personalization should be somewhere else. > [mysqld] > plugin_dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin > plugin-load=feedback.so Perhaps create a file ~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf that contains the line plugin-load=feedback.so > then restart akonadi with (akonadictl restart) > > > > thanks in advance, > > AL13N (mageia mariadb maintainer) -- blind Pete Sig goes here...
