On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:04:06AM -0500, Dan Buettner wrote: > You have a high number of connections, by my calculations about 15 per > second. (connection / uptime, or 46944092/3052131 = 15.38) I would > think that is introducing a fair bit of overhead for you - you might > consider persistent connections as a possible improvement. I'll ask the developers for this but AFAIK there's one connection for every access to the index.php and some other pages on one of three web servers.
> Other than that, are your using InnoDB or MyISAM tables, or a mix? It's only MyISAM at the moment. > Your key_buffer_size is just 512 MB, and your innodb_buffer_pool is > just 400 MB. Is increasing key_buffer to 768MB sufficient? > I'd suggest reading the optimization portions of the online manual, > and/or Jeremy Zawodny's "High Performance MySQL", and start adjusting > these cache settings. Seems like you're likely just not using all > your RAM. If you have a large dataset, then you may well be > disk-bound right now, which explains your low CPU utilization. There is very few to no I/O according to "vmstat 1". The datadir is only 4GB in total so that I even guess that almost all tables will fit into the process memory. bye, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH | Internet-Business-Provider Technik CISCO Systems Partner - Authorized Reseller Lütticher Straße 10 Tel 0241/701333-11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-52064 Aachen Fax 0241/911879 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]