>From: Rory McKinley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:57 PM >To: Jerry Schwartz; mysql >Subject: Re: Fulltext index -first query slow, subsequent queries fast > >Jerry Schwartz wrote: >> File system, or disk caching, uses some kind of algorithm to hold >chunks of >> files in system RAM. That way a program can get to it more quickly >than if >> it had to go out to the disk. The algorithms vary, depending upon the >smarts >> of the program and the smarts of the file system. The system might >keep the >> most recently used stuff, the most frequently used stuff, even the >stuff it >> thinks you will need based upon the pattern of use. >> >> Regards, ><snip> > >Hi Jerry > >Thanks for the explanation. > >So, in short, I am most likely hitting a wall with the fulltext index, >and I am just getting lucky cos of the disk caching, but I am not going >to be able to get away from that initial slow load...rats. [JS] I can't agree or disagree. I used to be a performance consultant, but that was in another life and I don't know anything about MySQL's own caching algorithms.
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