----- Original Message -----
From: "Johan Wahlström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: Most Performance, Opinions ?


> Hello!
>
> Can I actually turn off locks all the way, so that updates never locks
> a MyISAM table at all ?
>
> regarding mysql_pconnect() we haven't tried that, but the nature of
> the site suggests it would need like 500 apache deamons connected
> all the time. And that's a lot of sort buffers and stuff beeing allocated
> for each one of those ?
>
> regards, Johan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Rapaport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Johan Wahlström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 2:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Most Performance, Opinions ?
>
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > My question is similar to yours in some ways,
> > perhaps we can help each other.
> >
> > You say
> >  > We need no transactions, or any data integrity at all. We can afford
to
> >  > loose some data in trade for performance. (like a few hours or
> something,
> >  > which seems like a lot even if the replication whould fail).
> >
> > If that's the case, why are you doing table locks at all?
> > In most cases they won't be needed, and in the few cases where
> > data might be overwritten, you can sacrifice that data for performance,
> no?
> >
> > Also why are you reconnecting?  I think you can use mysql_pconnect()
> > to create a connection pool and save the connection overhead.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve Rapaport
> > World Citizen
> >
>


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