Group:
Index Usage
Name:
Buffer for joins requiring full table scan (per client)
Description:
This buffer is used for joins that don't use indexes. Such JOINs are bad. However you can decrease disk usage in such cases by increasing this value
Formula:
join_buffer_size
Advice:
This variable is set to a non-default size, which is usually not justified without benchmarks to support the non-default setting. Also, this variable should not be set larger than 4M globally, because it is allocated to its full size when needed. If you know that a certain query will benefit from a large setting, it is likely due to poorly optimized JOINs. You should rather optimize schemas and/or queries.