Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 19:01, Greg Whalin wrote: > What drives are you using? For SCSI RAID, you definitly want deadline > scheduler. That said, even after the switch to deadline, we saw our > Opteron's running way slow (compared to older slower Xeons). Whatever > the problem is, we fought it

Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 22:16, John David Duncan wrote: > > And no performance diff. Note that you're benchmarks only show a 20M > > addition overhead. We're about 60x too slow for these drives so I'm > > not > > sure what could be going on here :-/ > > > > I know of a site that encountered a s

Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread John David Duncan
And no performance diff. Note that you're benchmarks only show a 20M addition overhead. We're about 60x too slow for these drives so I'm not sure what could be going on here :-/ I know of a site that encountered a similar performance issue: The OS was reading in a lot more data from the disk th

Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 06), Kevin Burton said: > We have a few of DBs which aren't using disk IO to optimum capacity. > > They're running at a load of 1.5 or so with a high workload of > pending queries. > > When I do iostat I'm not noticing much IO : > > Device:rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s

Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Kevin Burton
Greg Whalin wrote: What drives are you using? For SCSI RAID, you definitly want deadline scheduler. That said, even after the switch to deadline, we saw our Opteron's running way slow (compared to older slower Xeons). Whatever the problem is, we fought it for quite a while (though difficult t

Re: Newbie:number of hits per day query

2005-05-06 Thread Anoop kumar V
ohh one correction: select substr(datetime,0,8) AS date, count(date) from userLog group by date; Anoop On 5/6/05, Anoop kumar V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how about this: > > select substr(datetime,0,8) AS date, count(datetime) from userLog group by > date; > > I could not clearly under

Re: Newbie:number of hits per day query

2005-05-06 Thread Anoop kumar V
how about this: select substr(datetime,0,8) AS date, count(datetime) from userLog group by date; I could not clearly understand what you wanted to average upon. HTH, Anoop On 5/6/05, Graham Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how do I get the average number of hits per day > > I ha

Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Greg Whalin
What drives are you using? For SCSI RAID, you definitly want deadline scheduler. That said, even after the switch to deadline, we saw our Opteron's running way slow (compared to older slower Xeons). Whatever the problem is, we fought it for quite a while (though difficult to test too much w/

Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Kevin Burton
Kevin Burton wrote: Greg Whalin wrote: Deadline was much faster. Using sysbench: test: sysbench --num-threads=16 --test=fileio --file-total-size=20G --file-test-mode=rndrw run So... FYI. I rebooted with elevator=deadline as a kernel param. db2:~# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler noop anticipa

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2005-05-06 Thread miguel
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Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Kevin Burton
Greg Whalin wrote: Deadline was much faster. Using sysbench: test: sysbench --num-threads=16 --test=fileio --file-total-size=20G --file-test-mode=rndrw run Wow... what version of sysbench are you running? Its giving me strange errors sysbench v0.3.4: multi-threaded system evaluation

Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Greg Whalin
Kevin Burton wrote: Greg Whalin wrote: We have seen the exact same thing here. We used the deadline scheduler and saw an immediate improvement. However, we still saw much worse performance on our Opteron's (compared to our older Xeon boxes). We ended up rolling back to Fedora Core 1 2.4.22-1

Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Kevin Burton
Greg Whalin wrote: We have seen the exact same thing here. We used the deadline scheduler and saw an immediate improvement. However, we still saw much worse performance on our Opteron's (compared to our older Xeon boxes). We ended up rolling back to Fedora Core 1 2.4.22-1.2199.nptlsmp kernel

Re: amPiguous!

2005-05-06 Thread Chris
Somethign else to think about as well, look at this slight modification: select pk from a left join b using (pk); Now, it's not likely this is a valid query for your table structure, but, in this instance, a.pk and b.pk are not necessarily the same. b.pk could potentially be NULL while a.pk was n

Newbie:number of hits per day query

2005-05-06 Thread Graham Anderson
how do I get the average number of hits per day I have a table like: DateTimeid ip 20050506190723 1 121.198.262 what I have so far SELECT DateTime , count( * ) FROM userLog GROUP BY DateTime LIMIT 0 , 30 I assume that DateTime would have to be converted to a specific da

Re: amPiguous!

2005-05-06 Thread Rhino
My mistake; I wasn't aware of the 'using' clause being an alternative syntax for 'on' in MySQL's versio of MySQL. I mostly use DB2 and that is *not* valid in DB2's SQL. Rhino - Original Message - From: "Simon Garner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 7:14 PM Subject: Re

Re: amPiguous!

2005-05-06 Thread Dan Bolser
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Eric Bergen wrote: >He's right in saying that mysql is capable of knowing. My thoughts are >that it's not worth the speed loss, extra code, and potential guess work >by mysql just so you don't have to type a table name. I see what you mean. I didn't think about additional qu

Re: amPiguous!

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Bergen
He's right in saying that mysql is capable of knowing. My thoughts are that it's not worth the speed loss, extra code, and potential guess work by mysql just so you don't have to type a table name. Eric Jensen wrote: The way he is joining tables is fine. You can specify how to link the using ON

Re: amPiguous!

2005-05-06 Thread Dan Bolser
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Simon Garner wrote: >On 7/05/2005 11:00 a.m., Rhino wrote: >> Actually, the error message is misleading. There is nothing that I would >> call ambiguous in your query: you have a syntax error. The join should be >> written: >> >> select pk from a inner join b on a.col1 = b

Re: amPiguous!

2005-05-06 Thread Dan Bolser
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Rhino wrote: >Actually, the error message is misleading. There is nothing that I would >call ambiguous in your query: you have a syntax error. The join should be >written: > >select pk from a inner join b on a.col1 = b.col2 > >Of course, you need to replace 'a.col1' and 'b.

Re: amPiguous!

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Jensen
The way he is joining tables is fine. You can specify how to link the using ON or you can just say to use a commonly named field with USING. The Problem is with the SELECT pk. That is ambiguous. From what table would you like the pk field? It can be table1.pk or table2.pk. Eric Jensen Rhino

Re: amPiguous!

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Garner
On 7/05/2005 11:00 a.m., Rhino wrote: Actually, the error message is misleading. There is nothing that I would call ambiguous in your query: you have a syntax error. The join should be written: select pk from a inner join b on a.col1 = b.col2 Of course, you need to replace 'a.col1' and 'b.col2'

Re: amPiguous!

2005-05-06 Thread Rhino
Actually, the error message is misleading. There is nothing that I would call ambiguous in your query: you have a syntax error. The join should be written: select pk from a inner join b on a.col1 = b.col2 Of course, you need to replace 'a.col1' and 'b.col2' with real column names from tables

amPiguous!

2005-05-06 Thread Dan Bolser
Why are columns included in the join between two tables ambigious? It seems that they should *not* be ambigious! Like this select pk from a inner join b using (pk); ERROR 1052 (23000): Column 'pk' in field list is ambiguous!!! Is this a bug, or is it like this for a reason? It drives me nuts,

Re: Expression Confusion?

2005-05-06 Thread Keith Ivey
Tommy Barrios wrote: Using the below statement results in a null data dump: SELECT * FROM items WHERE item = '109S2' AND venturi_type = 'L-shaped' AND category = 'burner'; Whereas if change the 'S' in the item = 10902 like this: SELECT * FROM items WHERE item = '10902' AND venturi_type = 'L-s

Expression Confusion?

2005-05-06 Thread Tommy Barrios
Greetings All, Being new to this list I beg indulgence in a matter that has me quite befuddled. Having already had good success in building my first database web site I was taken aback when I ran across his little problem whist checking things out for full functionality on a 7500+ item database;

Re: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Greg Whalin
We have seen the exact same thing here. We used the deadline scheduler and saw an immediate improvement. However, we still saw much worse performance on our Opteron's (compared to our older Xeon boxes). We ended up rolling back to Fedora Core 1 2.4.22-1.2199.nptlsmp kernel and shut down NPTL

Data Design : Numeric or keyword lookup values?

2005-05-06 Thread zzapper
hi, When designing data it is common to have lookup tables such animal_type : dog=1, cat=2,bird=3 etc And then in other tables to refer to animals by their number 1, 2 or 3. This is memory and presumably speed efficient. Howver not much fun for humans who are "reading/debugging" the data. Alt

RE: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Dathan Pattishall
What kernel are you running. If your running 2.6.x use the deadline scheduler or downgrade to 2.4.23aavm 2.6.[0-9] has major problems with the IO scheduler since the process scheduler is very fast now. DVP Dathan Vance Pattishall http://www.friendster.com > -Original Message

MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-06 Thread Kevin Burton
We have a few of DBs which aren't using disk IO to optimum capacity. They're running at a load of 1.5 or so with a high workload of pending queries. When I do iostat I'm not noticing much IO : Device:rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/srkB/swkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm

Re: index slowing things down?

2005-05-06 Thread Brent Baisley
Use explain to see what MySQL is doing. My guess is that MySQL is trying to figure out if it would be faster to use the index or scan the whole table. MySQL is probably deciding that it is quicker to scan the whole table based on the low cardinality of the indices it can use. Thus, you've just a

Problem compiling mysql 4.1.11 on AIX 5.1

2005-05-06 Thread Jon Earle
Hi all! I'm having trouble building the latest stable on AIX 5.1. My env is as follows: Relevant GNU tools: autoconf-2.58-1.aix5.1.noarch.rpm automake-1.7.9-1.aix5.1.noarch.rpm binutils-2.14-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm bison-1.875-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm flex-2.5.4a-6.aix4.3.ppc.rpm gcc-3.3.2-4.aix5.1.ppc.rpm l

index slowing things down?

2005-05-06 Thread Jon Beyer
I was playing around with a table that had 100 tinyint fields. Each record contained other a '0' or a '1' for each field. A query such as SELECT * FROM `foobar` WHERE `f01` =1 AND `f02` =1 AND `f03` =1 AND `f04` =1 AND `f05` =1 AND `f06` =1 AND `f07` =1 AND `f08` =1 AND `f09` =1 AND `f10` =

ERROR 1063 (4200) when trying to drop a user

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Wagar
I am trying to drop a user via: mysql> drop user 'wiki_user'; ERROR 1268 (HY000): Can't drop one or more of the requested users The relevant user table: mysql> select host,user from user; +---++ | host | user | +---+

couldn't drop column in Innodb table

2005-05-06 Thread TT
I use "alter table tbl_name drop col_name" but failed. The table has 20 million rows, and this turns out to be a size problem. appreciate any suggestions. __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http:

Re: C API : Problem using multi-statements

2005-05-06 Thread Jeremiah Gowdy
doh! need another redbull. :) - Original Message - From: "Reggie Burnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jeremiah Gowdy'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 9:31 AM Subject: RE: C API : Problem using multi-statements Jeremiah I don't use the client librar

RE: Work / Home DB synchronization

2005-05-06 Thread Karam Chand
Hello, I am not the final authority on this but you can use SSH/HTTP Tunneling. More information on it can be found at: http://www.devx.com/security/Article/27854?trk=DXRSS_DB If you have any question regarding, SQLyog, I guess - http://www.webyog.com/forums would be your best guess. Karam -

myisamchk and myisampack

2005-05-06 Thread TheRefUmp
Hello everyone, When running these utilities does the MySQL daemon have to be "down"? There's no activity against the database other than an occasional query. George __ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month

Re: Hardware requirements

2005-05-06 Thread Brent Baisley
That's kind of like asking what kind of car to buy to get from point A to point B. A sports car, it will get you there fast and in style. Unless you are a moving company, then it's totally inappropriate. A taxi service? Well that's different too. Ok, so you are selling by internet. Amazon.com,

RE: Work / Home DB synchronization

2005-05-06 Thread SGreen
You can use mysqldump to create a text version of your database. Mysqldump will generate the statements that will both (re)generate your tables and populate them with data. It may be the "low tech" solution you asked about. Just "dump" your DB to file (memory stick, zip disk, CD-RW) and move i

RE: C API : Problem using multi-statements

2005-05-06 Thread Javier Diaz
Hi Instead of use two INSERT statements, try something like this: INSERT INTO Table table1 VALUES (list of values1), (list of values2) -Original Message- From: Jeremiah Gowdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 May 2005 17:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject:

RE: C API : Problem using multi-statements

2005-05-06 Thread Reggie Burnett
Jeremiah I don't use the client library in my work but this should work from 4.1 on. -Reggie -Original Message- From: Jeremiah Gowdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: C API : Problem using mul

Re: C API : Problem using multi-statements

2005-05-06 Thread Jeremiah Gowdy
Answer is simple. Can't do that. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 5:40 AM Subject: C API : Problem using multi-statements Hello, I have some problems using multiple queries in a databased driven project, therefore I wrote a little testprogra

Re: Multi-user bookmark system

2005-05-06 Thread Lieven De Keyzer
From: Peter Brawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lieven De Keyzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Multi-user bookmark system Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 11:07:48 -0500 Lieven, Here it is. Removing the FK looks to me like an incorrect fix to the transitive dependency. But the F

Re: Multi-user bookmark system

2005-05-06 Thread Lieven De Keyzer
Peter, From: Peter Brawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lieven De Keyzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Multi-user bookmark system Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 10:09:12 -0500 Lieven, If a folder belongs to an account, why not use the account PK as a FK i

Re: no /tmp/mysql.sock

2005-05-06 Thread Mark Sargent
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Mark Sargent wrote: ... but, my real query, now, is, why the configs/my.cnf were different, Because there isn't any /etc/my.cnf created on your system by default; you are responsible for creating one if needed, using the examples in the ./support-files subdirectory. Obviou

Re: Multi-user bookmark system

2005-05-06 Thread Peter Brawley
Lieven, If a folder belongs to an account, why not use the account PK as a FK in folders? See http://www.intelligententerprise.com/001020/celko1_1.jhtml for ideas about SQL representation of trees. Peter Brawley http://www.artfulsoftware.com - Lieven De Keyzer wrote: I'm writing a web-appli

Re: Tables lost in new location of database

2005-05-06 Thread Anoop kumar V
Thank you Gleb, I will try that out and let you know how I did.. Thanks again, Anoop On 5/5/05, Gleb Paharenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > Remove mysqld-nt and install mysqld-nt-max. See: > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/windows-start-service.html > > >jNo - mysqld-nt-max i

Re: Foreign Key Restriction

2005-05-06 Thread Michael Stassen
Oliver Hirschi wrote: "Partha Dutta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You can turn off foreign key restrictions within your session: SET SESSION foreign_key_checks = 0; Then later, turn them back on using SET SESSION foreign_key_checks = 1; I saw, that the tables o

Re: Hardware requirements

2005-05-06 Thread Frank Bax
At 10:17 AM 5/6/05, Berta Alcala Larramendi wrote: I'm doing an University project and I need to "buy" a server for a business. I have to simulate an enterprise that sells by Internet. There are many clients and products in the Data Base and we use MySQL in a Linux OS. I need to find as much info

Multi-user bookmark system

2005-05-06 Thread Lieven De Keyzer
I'm writing a web-application that allows users to store their bookmarks. Each user has a tree of folders (and bookmarks belong to these folders). The only thing I want to do with tree elements at the same level is display them, and let the user only go up and down in the tree by one level. No aggr

Re: confirm subscribe to mysql@lists.mysql.com

2005-05-06 Thread Filipe Sousa
On Thursday 05 May 2005 20:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To confirm that you would like > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > added to the mysql mailing list, please click on > the following link: > > http://lists.mysql.com/s/mysql/427a791715a3ffed/filipe=ipb.pt > > This confirmation serves two purposes.

Hardware requirements

2005-05-06 Thread Berta Alcala Larramendi
Hello, I'm doing an University project and I need to "buy" a server for a business. I have to simulate an enterprise that sells by Internet. There are many clients and products in the Data Base and we use MySQL in a Linux OS. I need to find as much information as possible about the hardware requ

Re: Foreign Key Restriction

2005-05-06 Thread Oliver Hirschi
"Partha Dutta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can turn off foreign key restrictions within your session: > > SET SESSION foreign_key_checks = 0; > > Then later, turn them back on using > > SET SESSION foreign_key_checks = 1; > I saw, that the tables on my

Re: no /tmp/mysql.sock

2005-05-06 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Mark Sargent wrote: ... but, my real query, now, is, why the configs/my.cnf were different, Because there isn't any /etc/my.cnf created on your system by default; you are responsible for creating one if needed, using the examples in the ./support-files subdirectory. Obviously the /etc/my.cnf on y

[Fwd: Re: Beta 5.0.4: Table 'mysql.host' Does Not Exist]

2005-05-06 Thread Robert L Cochran
Hello, Thank you! This is what I needed to do to get the server started. I executed mysql_install_db as the operating system's root user which may have been a mistake? That set the permissions on the 'mysql' database in the data directory to root.root, causing the server to fail to start when i

RE: Work / Home DB synchronization

2005-05-06 Thread Scott Purcell
Thanks for the info. I did not know there was a GUI for the mysql product. I installed it and its like Toad for mysql. Very cool. As I am not very strong at using mysql, I am a J2EE developer. I came up with two questions I need some more support with. 1). My home box does not have a static IP

Re: [OT] client_IP

2005-05-06 Thread John Doe
Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 02.10 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Forgive me if this question has been answer in the past. > > How can you record IP address on your first page index.html? > > I am using my index.html to be index.lasso, and client_ip tag does not > seem to work. > It is picking up my serve

C API : Problem using multi-statements

2005-05-06 Thread ganjineh
Hello, I have some problems using multiple queries in a databased driven project, therefore I wrote a little testprogram which causes the same problems. I am using the C-API of MySQL 4.1.11 on a Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7 with 2.4.27 kernel. I connect to the server (on localhost)

Re: Tables lost in new location of database

2005-05-06 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Remove mysqld-nt and install mysqld-nt-max. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/windows-start-service.html >jNo - mysqld-nt-max is not running - I can see in the task manager that >jonly mysqld-nt is running!! >jI also confirmed this by checking in my services - I only have

Re: Beta 5.0.4: Table 'mysql.host' Does Not Exist

2005-05-06 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Probably mysql_install_db wasn't executed due to SElinux restrictions. Execute it is manually. Check that your data directory has the 'mysql' database. Robert L Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I installed MySQL-server version 5.0.4 on my Fedora Core 3 system > (Linux x

Re: Problem connecting to 4.1 server

2005-05-06 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Are you sure that mysql.exe is the same version as the server? Check if you're able to connect to 3.23.xx server using API. What value does your MYSQL_SECURE_AUTH option have? See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql-options.html Nicholas Watmough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w