Even if it's possible, it's far from clear to me that it would be an improvement. The author estimates (apparently somewhat loosely) that it's a 5% to 10% performance hit in InnoDB; I'm far from certain that full_page_writes cost us that much. Does anyone have benchmark numbers handy?
It most certainly can, depending on your CPU saturation and I/O support. I've seen a 10% improvement in througput time from turning off full_page_writes on some machines, such as when we were doing the SpecJAppserver benchmarks on Solaris.
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