mytop measures the overall performance of the server... it's not daatabase bound !
For itself it uses the "test" database... but that has no meaning... it's not measuring that database performance... You can see queries that take to long aprearing in the list... It uses SHOW STATUS - to get and/or compute the statistics you see on the top part of the screen ! SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST - to get a list of running proceses ( SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, CREATE ....... ) So it cannot be database bound ! -- Gabriel PREDA Senior Web Developer