Re: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-29 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi René, everybody!


René Fournier wrote:
 [[...]] However, even if the Index can't fit in memory (4GB of RAM, lots 
 free), just reading it from disk should allow sub-millisecond response, no?

No chance!
Of course, performance of disk drives varies, but AFAIK typical values
are in the range of 7 - 10 ms per random access.
Assuming the (very unlikely) optimum case of one index access and one
data access, this would put you into the range of 15 - 20 ms just for
fetching the stuff from disk, not including any CPU time to traverse the
data structures etc.

Just do some math:
A disk with 7,200 rpm has 120 revolutions per second, so it needs a bit
more than 8 milliseconds per revolution.
Random access means you have to wait (on average) for half a revolution
(4 ms) until the desired block passes the disk head, and before that the
head needs to be positioned at the proper cylinder (the drive's data
sheet might give that time).

I guess that even with SSD you will not reach sub-millisecond response
times if the data is not in RAM.

 
 Strange thing is that I've used my laptop for benchmarking for the past five 
 years and it's always produced results fairly typical or at least consistent 
 in relation to our servers. This new thing is... new.

IMO, the most influential factor in single-user database benchmarks are
- disk performance
- RAM size for caches, cache replacement
- history, cache preloading

Their relative importance will vary, depending especially on data size.
As long as your data size is small enough that RAM differences between
server and laptop don't matter too much, performance on the laptop may
be a good prediction of that on the server.

With multi-user benchmarks, CPU performance, number of cores etc becomes
another important factor, again the relative weights will vary.


Regards,
Jörg

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Re: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-28 Thread René Fournier
Even weirder, I came back to my laptop a couple hours later. And now the same 
queries are taking 3-10 seconds instead of 0.01 seconds. What could be causing 
this?

On 2009-12-28, at 1:19 PM, René Fournier wrote:

 Hmm, weird. I just re-imported the data (after drop/create table, etc.), and 
 now the spatial queries run fast. 
 Has anyone seen this sort of thing happen? Maybe the Index got corrupted 
 somehow, and then MySQL had to do a full table scan (even though EXPLAIN 
 indicated it would use the Spatial Index)?
 
 
 
 On 2009-12-28, at 9:28 AM, René Fournier wrote:
 
 So just to clarify (hello?), the index which *should* be used (EXPLAIN says 
 so) and *should* make the query run faster than 4 seconds either isn't used 
 (why?) or simply doesn't speed up the query (again, why?).
 
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 | id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key   | key_len | ref  
 | rows | Extra   |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 |  1 | SIMPLE  | qs| range | coord | coord | 27  | NULL 
 | 5260 | Using where | 
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 
 SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m, 
 quartersection FROM qs WHERE MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), 
 coordinates)
 
 8 rows in set (3.87 sec)
 
 
 On 2009-12-27, at 3:59 PM, René Fournier wrote:
 
 So... there is an index, and it's supposedly used:
 
 mysql EXPLAIN SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, 
 AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE 
 MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates);
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 | id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key   | key_len | ref  
 | rows | Extra   |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 |  1 | SIMPLE  | qs| range | coord | coord | 27  | NULL 
 | 5260 | Using where | 
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
 
 But when I run the query:
 
 mysql SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), 
 s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE 
 MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates)
  - ;
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 | id | province | latitude| longitude | AsText(coordinates) 
  | s_ts_r_m | quartersection |
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 | 444543 | AB   | 51.63495228 | -114.79282412 | POINT(51.63495228 
 -114.79282412) | 04-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444564 | AB   | 51.64941120 | -114.79283278 | POINT(51.6494112 
 -114.79283278)  | 09-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444548 | AB   | 51.63497789 | -114.81645649 | POINT(51.63497789 
 -114.81645649) | 05-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444561 | AB   | 51.64943119 | -114.81643801 | POINT(51.64943119 
 -114.81643801) | 08-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444547 | AB   | 51.62775680 | -114.80475858 | POINT(51.6277568 
 -114.80475858)  | 05-031-06 W5 | E4 | 
 | 444549 | AB   | 51.63498028 | -114.80479925 | POINT(51.63498028 
 -114.80479925) | 05-031-06 W5 | NE | 
 | 444560 | AB   | 51.64220442 | -114.80478262 | POINT(51.64220442 
 -114.80478262) | 08-031-06 W5 | E4 | 
 | 444562 | AB   | 51.64942854 | -114.80476596 | POINT(51.64942854 
 -114.80476596) | 08-031-06 W5 | NE | 
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 8 rows in set (3.87 sec)
 
 So, there are ~2.6 million rows in the table, and coordinates is 
 spatially-indexed. Yet the query requires nearly 4 seconds. What am I doing 
 wrong?
 
 ...REne
 
 
 
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RE: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-28 Thread Gavin Towey
It sounds like your laptop might be paging mysql's memory to disk or something 
like that.  Your laptop may not be the most reliable source for benchmarks.

Regards,
Gavin Towey

-Original Message-
From: René Fournier [mailto:m...@renefournier.com]
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 2:16 AM
To: René Fournier
Cc: mysql
Subject: Re: Why does this query take so long?

Even weirder, I came back to my laptop a couple hours later. And now the same 
queries are taking 3-10 seconds instead of 0.01 seconds. What could be causing 
this?

On 2009-12-28, at 1:19 PM, René Fournier wrote:

 Hmm, weird. I just re-imported the data (after drop/create table, etc.), and 
 now the spatial queries run fast.
 Has anyone seen this sort of thing happen? Maybe the Index got corrupted 
 somehow, and then MySQL had to do a full table scan (even though EXPLAIN 
 indicated it would use the Spatial Index)?



 On 2009-12-28, at 9:28 AM, René Fournier wrote:

 So just to clarify (hello?), the index which *should* be used (EXPLAIN says 
 so) and *should* make the query run faster than 4 seconds either isn't used 
 (why?) or simply doesn't speed up the query (again, why?).

 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 | id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key   | key_len | ref  
 | rows | Extra   |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 |  1 | SIMPLE  | qs| range | coord | coord | 27  | NULL 
 | 5260 | Using where |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+

 SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m, 
 quartersection FROM qs WHERE MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), 
 coordinates)

 8 rows in set (3.87 sec)


 On 2009-12-27, at 3:59 PM, René Fournier wrote:

 So... there is an index, and it's supposedly used:

 mysql EXPLAIN SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, 
 AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE 
 MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates);
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 | id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key   | key_len | ref  
 | rows | Extra   |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 |  1 | SIMPLE  | qs| range | coord | coord | 27  | NULL 
 | 5260 | Using where |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

 But when I run the query:

 mysql SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), 
 s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE 
 MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates)
  - ;
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 | id | province | latitude| longitude | AsText(coordinates) 
  | s_ts_r_m | quartersection |
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 | 444543 | AB   | 51.63495228 | -114.79282412 | POINT(51.63495228 
 -114.79282412) | 04-031-06 W5 | N4 |
 | 444564 | AB   | 51.64941120 | -114.79283278 | POINT(51.6494112 
 -114.79283278)  | 09-031-06 W5 | N4 |
 | 444548 | AB   | 51.63497789 | -114.81645649 | POINT(51.63497789 
 -114.81645649) | 05-031-06 W5 | N4 |
 | 444561 | AB   | 51.64943119 | -114.81643801 | POINT(51.64943119 
 -114.81643801) | 08-031-06 W5 | N4 |
 | 444547 | AB   | 51.62775680 | -114.80475858 | POINT(51.6277568 
 -114.80475858)  | 05-031-06 W5 | E4 |
 | 444549 | AB   | 51.63498028 | -114.80479925 | POINT(51.63498028 
 -114.80479925) | 05-031-06 W5 | NE |
 | 444560 | AB   | 51.64220442 | -114.80478262 | POINT(51.64220442 
 -114.80478262) | 08-031-06 W5 | E4 |
 | 444562 | AB   | 51.64942854 | -114.80476596 | POINT(51.64942854 
 -114.80476596) | 08-031-06 W5 | NE |
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 8 rows in set (3.87 sec)

 So, there are ~2.6 million rows in the table, and coordinates is 
 spatially-indexed. Yet the query requires nearly 4 seconds. What am I doing 
 wrong?

 ...REne



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Re: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-28 Thread René Fournier
I think you might be right. The good-to-poor performance I'm seeing is so 
intermittent. And I see now that it's also with other queries, though not as 
extremely obvious as the spatial queries. However, even if the Index can't fit 
in memory (4GB of RAM, lots free), just reading it from disk should allow 
sub-millisecond response, no?

Strange thing is that I've used my laptop for benchmarking for the past five 
years and it's always produced results fairly typical or at least consistent in 
relation to our servers. This new thing is... new.

On 2009-12-29, at 3:18 AM, Gavin Towey wrote:

 It sounds like your laptop might be paging mysql's memory to disk or 
 something like that.  Your laptop may not be the most reliable source for 
 benchmarks.
 
 Regards,
 Gavin Towey
 
 -Original Message-
 From: René Fournier [mailto:m...@renefournier.com]
 Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 2:16 AM
 To: René Fournier
 Cc: mysql
 Subject: Re: Why does this query take so long?
 
 Even weirder, I came back to my laptop a couple hours later. And now the same 
 queries are taking 3-10 seconds instead of 0.01 seconds. What could be 
 causing this?
 
 On 2009-12-28, at 1:19 PM, René Fournier wrote:
 
 Hmm, weird. I just re-imported the data (after drop/create table, etc.), and 
 now the spatial queries run fast.
 Has anyone seen this sort of thing happen? Maybe the Index got corrupted 
 somehow, and then MySQL had to do a full table scan (even though EXPLAIN 
 indicated it would use the Spatial Index)?
 
 
 
 On 2009-12-28, at 9:28 AM, René Fournier wrote:
 
 So just to clarify (hello?), the index which *should* be used (EXPLAIN says 
 so) and *should* make the query run faster than 4 seconds either isn't used 
 (why?) or simply doesn't speed up the query (again, why?).
 
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 | id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key   | key_len | ref  
 | rows | Extra   |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 |  1 | SIMPLE  | qs| range | coord | coord | 27  | NULL 
 | 5260 | Using where |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 
 SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m, 
 quartersection FROM qs WHERE MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), 
 coordinates)
 
 8 rows in set (3.87 sec)
 
 
 On 2009-12-27, at 3:59 PM, René Fournier wrote:
 
 So... there is an index, and it's supposedly used:
 
 mysql EXPLAIN SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, 
 AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE 
 MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates);
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 | id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key   | key_len | ref 
  | rows | Extra   |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 |  1 | SIMPLE  | qs| range | coord | coord | 27  | 
 NULL | 5260 | Using where |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
 
 But when I run the query:
 
 mysql SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), 
 s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE 
 MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates)
 - ;
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 | id | province | latitude| longitude | AsText(coordinates)
   | s_ts_r_m | quartersection |
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 | 444543 | AB   | 51.63495228 | -114.79282412 | POINT(51.63495228 
 -114.79282412) | 04-031-06 W5 | N4 |
 | 444564 | AB   | 51.64941120 | -114.79283278 | POINT(51.6494112 
 -114.79283278)  | 09-031-06 W5 | N4 |
 | 444548 | AB   | 51.63497789 | -114.81645649 | POINT(51.63497789 
 -114.81645649) | 05-031-06 W5 | N4 |
 | 444561 | AB   | 51.64943119 | -114.81643801 | POINT(51.64943119 
 -114.81643801) | 08-031-06 W5 | N4 |
 | 444547 | AB   | 51.62775680 | -114.80475858 | POINT(51.6277568 
 -114.80475858)  | 05-031-06 W5 | E4 |
 | 444549 | AB   | 51.63498028 | -114.80479925 | POINT(51.63498028 
 -114.80479925) | 05-031-06 W5 | NE

Re: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-27 Thread René Fournier
So just to clarify (hello?), the index which *should* be used (EXPLAIN says so) 
and *should* make the query run faster than 4 seconds either isn't used (why?) 
or simply doesn't speed up the query (again, why?).

++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
| id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key   | key_len | ref  | 
rows | Extra   |
++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
|  1 | SIMPLE  | qs| range | coord | coord | 27  | NULL | 
5260 | Using where | 
++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+

SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m, 
quartersection FROM qs WHERE MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 
-114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
-114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates)

8 rows in set (3.87 sec)


On 2009-12-27, at 3:59 PM, René Fournier wrote:

 So... there is an index, and it's supposedly used:
 
 mysql EXPLAIN SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), 
 s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE 
 MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.82248918))'), coordinates);
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 | id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key   | key_len | ref  | 
 rows | Extra   |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 |  1 | SIMPLE  | qs| range | coord | coord | 27  | NULL | 
 5260 | Using where | 
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
 
 But when I run the query:
 
 mysql SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), 
 s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE 
 MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.82248918))'), coordinates)
- ;
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 | id | province | latitude| longitude | AsText(coordinates)   
| s_ts_r_m | quartersection |
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 | 444543 | AB   | 51.63495228 | -114.79282412 | POINT(51.63495228 
 -114.79282412) | 04-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444564 | AB   | 51.64941120 | -114.79283278 | POINT(51.6494112 
 -114.79283278)  | 09-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444548 | AB   | 51.63497789 | -114.81645649 | POINT(51.63497789 
 -114.81645649) | 05-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444561 | AB   | 51.64943119 | -114.81643801 | POINT(51.64943119 
 -114.81643801) | 08-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444547 | AB   | 51.62775680 | -114.80475858 | POINT(51.6277568 
 -114.80475858)  | 05-031-06 W5 | E4 | 
 | 444549 | AB   | 51.63498028 | -114.80479925 | POINT(51.63498028 
 -114.80479925) | 05-031-06 W5 | NE | 
 | 444560 | AB   | 51.64220442 | -114.80478262 | POINT(51.64220442 
 -114.80478262) | 08-031-06 W5 | E4 | 
 | 444562 | AB   | 51.64942854 | -114.80476596 | POINT(51.64942854 
 -114.80476596) | 08-031-06 W5 | NE | 
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 8 rows in set (3.87 sec)
 
 So, there are ~2.6 million rows in the table, and coordinates is 
 spatially-indexed. Yet the query requires nearly 4 seconds. What am I doing 
 wrong?
 
 ...REne


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Re: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-27 Thread René Fournier
Hmm, weird. I just re-imported the data (after drop/create table, etc.), and 
now the spatial queries run fast. 
Has anyone seen this sort of thing happen? Maybe the Index got corrupted 
somehow, and then MySQL had to do a full table scan (even though EXPLAIN 
indicated it would use the Spatial Index)?



On 2009-12-28, at 9:28 AM, René Fournier wrote:

 So just to clarify (hello?), the index which *should* be used (EXPLAIN says 
 so) and *should* make the query run faster than 4 seconds either isn't used 
 (why?) or simply doesn't speed up the query (again, why?).
 
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 | id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key   | key_len | ref  | 
 rows | Extra   |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 |  1 | SIMPLE  | qs| range | coord | coord | 27  | NULL | 
 5260 | Using where | 
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 
 SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m, 
 quartersection FROM qs WHERE MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates)
 
 8 rows in set (3.87 sec)
 
 
 On 2009-12-27, at 3:59 PM, René Fournier wrote:
 
 So... there is an index, and it's supposedly used:
 
 mysql EXPLAIN SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, 
 AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE 
 MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates);
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 | id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key   | key_len | ref  
 | rows | Extra   |
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 |  1 | SIMPLE  | qs| range | coord | coord | 27  | NULL 
 | 5260 | Using where | 
 ++-+---+---+---+---+-+--+--+-+
 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
 
 But when I run the query:
 
 mysql SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), 
 s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE 
 MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 
 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 
 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates)
   - ;
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 | id | province | latitude| longitude | AsText(coordinates)  
 | s_ts_r_m | quartersection |
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 | 444543 | AB   | 51.63495228 | -114.79282412 | POINT(51.63495228 
 -114.79282412) | 04-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444564 | AB   | 51.64941120 | -114.79283278 | POINT(51.6494112 
 -114.79283278)  | 09-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444548 | AB   | 51.63497789 | -114.81645649 | POINT(51.63497789 
 -114.81645649) | 05-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444561 | AB   | 51.64943119 | -114.81643801 | POINT(51.64943119 
 -114.81643801) | 08-031-06 W5 | N4 | 
 | 444547 | AB   | 51.62775680 | -114.80475858 | POINT(51.6277568 
 -114.80475858)  | 05-031-06 W5 | E4 | 
 | 444549 | AB   | 51.63498028 | -114.80479925 | POINT(51.63498028 
 -114.80479925) | 05-031-06 W5 | NE | 
 | 444560 | AB   | 51.64220442 | -114.80478262 | POINT(51.64220442 
 -114.80478262) | 08-031-06 W5 | E4 | 
 | 444562 | AB   | 51.64942854 | -114.80476596 | POINT(51.64942854 
 -114.80476596) | 08-031-06 W5 | NE | 
 ++--+-+---+--+--++
 8 rows in set (3.87 sec)
 
 So, there are ~2.6 million rows in the table, and coordinates is 
 spatially-indexed. Yet the query requires nearly 4 seconds. What am I doing 
 wrong?
 
 ...REne
 


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Re: Why does 1st query take so long?

2001-01-16 Thread Milo Stefani


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Subject: Why does 1st query take so long?


 I've noticed that when developing queries involving complex joins on
 tables I sometimes seem to get appallingly long times the first time I run
 a query, but the second and subsequent time I run it - even substituting
 a different value for a field value I'm matching on - the query runs
 quickly.
 
 Does mySQL do some behind-the-scenes reindexing the first time,
 resulting in the speed differences I see? If so is there some way I can
 force it to re-build indices periodically so I can ensure that queries are
 generally fast? Is this the point I should be going out and buying a book
 about mySQL? ;-)

I think its because the Operating System is caching the data the query are run on




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