On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:46:52AM -0800, Jeff Kilbride wrote: > I've heard some bad things about turning off swap on Linux. I think it was > on Jeremy Z.'s Blogger page. If he sees this maybe he can comment.
It really depends on the kernel too. Newer (2.4.19+) kernel are much better than those after 2.4.9. The great VM swap was a bad, bad idea. > I agree with David, though, in that your key_buffer size is way too > low. Did he ever say how large his indexes are? If not, how can you be sure of that? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.8: up 53 days, processed 1,833,401,792 queries (394/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
