Hi.

I've a (large?) FreeRadius database with MySQL 5.0.51.
When the database was set up, MyISAM engine was used. Since now we're experiencing some performance problems, I was considering the migration to InnoDB, which I read should be faster.

MySQL is a master/master replica setup. Since the ALTER TABLE will take some minutes (I did a test run on a separate db), and one of the two database while still active is not publicly accessible, I tought I could run the alter on the "offline" db first using the following:
SET SQL_LOG_BIN=0;
ALTER TABLE ... ENGINE=InnoDB;
SET SQL_LOG_BIN=1;

then switch the online db and run the same on the second node.
From what I've read around, and basicly here [1], the main adivces are about disk storage, but not much more...

My questions are:
* will I really gain in performance by switching to Innodb?
* is the above procedure a good schedule?
* is there anything else I should care about, before starting?

Thanks!
maxxer

[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/converting-tables-to-innodb.html
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