Magento Database Optimization - Log Cleaning Script

Has your Magento store been running slower and slower. When was the last time you did a real log cleaning and database optimization. Doing those two things will ensure that your Magento store will stay running smoother for longer.

Log Cleaning to Speed up your Site

The following tables are accessed during normal operation of your Magento store. Some of the logs files are access with every page view, and write/reading to them can dramatically slow down your site when they get large in size.

When I talk about log cleaning I mean truncating the following tables:

core_cache
core_cache_option
core_cache_tag
core_session
log_customer
log_quote
log_summary
log_summary_type
log_url
log_url_info
log_visitor
log_visitor_info
log_visitor_online
index_event
index_process_event
report_event
report_viewed_product_index
report_compared_product_index
dataflow_batch_export
dataflow_batch_import

After cleaning out those logs, I have seen a site gain over 5 seconds to their load times.

Optimization/Repairing your Database Tables

I know that Magento uses alot of innodb tables and innodb tables do not use optimization but when your run the command it will recreate + analyze the table. This can help increase your page load times and database access speeds.

Bash Script to Clear Logs and Optimize Magento Tables

The bash script does everything except make a database backup, which I recommend doing anytime you make any changes to your database.

Basic walk-through of what the script will do.

Put your site into maintenance mode - Important step to prevent database corruption.
Truncates the above tables
Repairs any tables that are in need of repair
Optimize tables/recreate + analyze
Takes your site out of maintenance mode

Also creates a log file in your home directory, letting you know whats going on in the background

Example of the log file, look for them in your home directory, feel free to delete them but can be used for debugging.

database-optimized-04-25-14-22:26.txt

Link to Download the script

This script needs to reside in your sites top level directory

Install via the Command Line

wget http://briansnelson.com/stuff/magento-db-optimize.script
chmod +x magento-db-optimize.script

Now Lets run the script

./magento-db-optimize.script

_{-- Have not tested this on Magento 1.4 or older}

Sample Output

=============================
Using Database: magento1501
Magento Version: 1.5.0.1
Database Size:  15.40 MB
Written by Brian Nelson @ http://briansnelson.com
Download at http://briansnelson.com/stuff/magento-db-optimize.script
=============================

Setting maintenance.flag ..
Setting Maintenacne Flag... [OK] 

Optimization Tables ...
=============================

Truncating Log tables ..
[1/20] Truncated: core_cache ... [OK]
[2/20] Truncated: core_cache_option ... [OK]
[3/20] Truncated: core_cache_tag ... [OK]
[4/20] Truncated: core_session ... [OK]
[5/20] Truncated: log_customer ... [OK]
[6/20] Truncated: log_quote ... [OK]
[7/20] Truncated: log_summary ... [OK]
[8/20] Truncated: log_summary_type ... [OK]
[9/20] Truncated: log_url ... [OK]
[10/20] Truncated: log_url_info ... [OK]
[11/20] Truncated: log_visitor ... [OK]
[12/20] Truncated: log_visitor_info ... [OK]
[13/20] Truncated: log_visitor_online ... [OK]
[14/20] Truncated: index_event ... [OK]
[15/20] Truncated: index_process_event ... [OK]
[16/20] Truncated: report_event ... [OK]
[17/20] Truncated: report_viewed_product_index ... [OK]
[18/20] Truncated: report_compared_product_index ... [OK]
[19/20] Truncated: dataflow_batch_export ... [OK]
[20/20] Truncated: dataflow_batch_import ... [OK]

Repairing Tables ..
Repairing Tables: ... [OK]

Optimizing Tables ..
Optimizing Table: ... [OK]

=============================

Removing maintenance.flag ..
Removing Maintenance Flag... [OK]

New Database Size ..
Database Size:  15.40 MB

Check Site to Make sure its Working...
=============================
Click Here -> {base_url}

Setting Up a Weekly Cron

This script can also be ran from a weekly cron

crontab -u {your user} -e

Then add the following line for every Sun at 5AM

0 5 * * 0 /bin/bash /path/to/html/magento-db-optimize.script

Magento Database Optimization - Log Cleaning Script

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