Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running a MySQL server on a duel P III 1G, with 2 GB RAM. > MySQL 4.0.18 compiled from source. > > We have 2 webservers running apache, And this is the backend database server. > The server is really slow. > a select on a table with 138,247 rows takes about 1.6 - 2+ seconds, I have about 50% > CPU > idle. > > using MyISAM table types. > > sure I can provide any statistics about the running server. > Do you think that switching to innodb'd help ? Is it a problem with Debian woody ?? > Any suggestions are welcomed.
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