On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:06:03AM +0100, Nico Rehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a big problem.
> I NEED to do a full table scan every month on a table.
> I really need all of the data in this table
> This table has about 1,2 GB of data.
> It takes mysql about 45 minutes to send the data.
> 
> I configured mysql with the my-huge.cnf and 
> I also tried "record_buffer=50M" 
> but nothing really changed
> 
> Server:
> 2 GB RAM,
> 4 IDE Harddisks and IBM RAID Controller
> only mysql is running on this server
> 
> What do i have to configure to get these huge amount of data faster?
> Or is mysql not the right database for such things?

Is the scanning disk or I/O bound?  Does it max out the CPU?  Or is
there idle time yet?
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