wait_timeout

2004-06-08 Thread Seth Brundle
The manual describes wait_timeout thusly: "The number of seconds the server waits for activity on a non-interactive connection before closing it. On thread startup, the session wait_timeout value is initialized from the global wait_timeout value or from the global interactive_timeout value, dep

Problems maintaining large high-availability search

2004-06-07 Thread Seth Brundle
I have been maintaining a mod-perl/MySQL4 web search engine with about 3M records, which gains and drops about 100k records daily. It runs on a dual-Opteron 242 system with 8GB RAM, 15k SCSI driv, SUSE Professional for AMD64. It recently grew to this size (from about 1M records), and I am encoun

Re: 64-bit Linux MySQL and ramdisks

2004-01-29 Thread Seth Brundle
> If you are using MySQL 4.x, using a RAM disk isn't going to speed > up similar Selects very much because it caches them. If you are doing a lot > of different Selects then it will help. Its a web search engine with 10-15 search options, so yes the selects will vary and very often every row will

Fw: 64-bit Linux MySQL and ramdisks

2004-01-28 Thread Seth Brundle
- Original Message - From: "Seth Brundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:50 PM Subject: Re: 64-bit Linux MySQL and ramdisks > > I am curious, is there really that big of a benefit to using a

64-bit Linux MySQL and ramdisks

2004-01-28 Thread Seth Brundle
After some research, I chose a dual Opteron MySQL server for my new search box. For storage, I only update the tables once a day, so I plan on putting my data directory on a Linux ramdrive and backing it up to the hard disk after each update for maximum performance. If anyone has any reccommend

Re: Could we make this a web discussion forum?

2003-04-04 Thread Seth Brundle
PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the last episode (Mar 31), Seth Brundle said: > > First people, please dont get all angry about my suggestion...please > > hear me out... > > > > > I really hate on-line forums. They're difficult

Re: Could we make this a web discussion forum?

2003-03-31 Thread Seth Brundle
> No but those in need of help does. And those ppl who are capable of helping > them are usually busy. Do they keep a browser open and refresh the forum > frequently? I'll answer that question: no. Many forums packages have the ability to distribute the discussion as a mailing list as well (Yahoo!

Re: Could we make this a web discussion forum?

2003-03-31 Thread Seth Brundle
> Most ppl don't like forums. I disagee with that, but then again I probably dont have any more idea then you do. > Do you know even one serious project which uses > a forum? I know Slackware did and it really was a PAIN. All of the projects on SourceForge.net? Also, by forum I also mean usenet

Re: Could we make this a web discussion forum?

2003-03-31 Thread Seth Brundle
> It's much more convenient than a web forum, and much > faster too, because I don't have to wait for some remote, overloaded server > to respond. This makes no sense as message I post to a Yahoo! Group get emailed to opt-in members and appears on the group within seconds, while I may not receive

Re: Could we make this a web discussion forum?

2003-03-31 Thread Seth Brundle
> > I really hate on-line forums. They're difficult to track because I > > must remember visit them daily. > > Agreed. I don't need yet another web page to keep track of. I prefer to > let my mail reader thread up the messages on this list, then I browse > through every now and then and delete e

Re: Could we make this a web discussion forum?

2003-03-31 Thread Seth Brundle
First people, please dont get all angry about my suggestion...please hear me out... > I really hate on-line forums. They're difficult to track because I > must remember visit them daily. OK this is the first issue - 95% of people who need MySQL info do not need it daily. Mailing lists are a poor

Could we make this a web discussion forum?

2003-03-31 Thread Seth Brundle
I really hate mailing lists - they are dinosaurs for this type of thing. A web discussion board is a much more powerful and flexible tool for this type of community. Thread tracking, archiving, searching, dont have to download 50 emails a day just to monitor a couple threads...cmon its 2003! Cant

MySQL database on a Linux ramdisk partition?

2003-03-11 Thread Seth Brundle
Is it possible to place MySQL data directories on a Linux ramdisk mount? - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this th

some gamma-gatcha sqlbench stats

2003-03-05 Thread Seth Brundle
I just built a P4 3.06 1GB DDR 333 15k U160 SCSI MySQL Linux server. I was dissapointed because I couldnt get the dual-channel DDR 400 MB I tried first to run stable :( dual-channel memory controllers definitely made a slight difference on the benchmarks with the same ram. alter-table 2

How to tell when mysql has frozen

2003-03-04 Thread Seth Brundle
I attempted to optimize a table last night, which usually takes about 5 minutes but I expected to take longer as I had done a slew of deletes. Well, it took over an hour, and from the last modified dates on the table and temp files, it looked like they hadnt been updated in 10-15 minutes. Eventua

copying databases to avoid insert holdups

2003-02-26 Thread Seth Brundle
I have a MySQL database I will be launching soon which has a search engine database accesable over DBI/mod_perl/Apace. It has about 2M records, and is a 4GB table with 1GB index. Every day I insert 76k records all at once and delete about another 76k. While these inserts are happening, the select