Re: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread Brent Baisley
2:27 PM, James Drabb wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harald Fuchs Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:18 AM To: James Drabb Subject: Re: FULLTEXT and large database I seem to get inconsistent results when using the FULLTEXT index speed-wise o

RE: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread James Drabb
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harald Fuchs Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:18 AM To: James Drabb Subject: Re: FULLTEXT and large database > > I seem to get inconsistent results when using the FULLTEXT index > > speed-wise

RE: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread Alec . Cawley
"James Drabb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/05/2004 16:30:07: > The text 'May' is in the column, yet I get no rows returned? The admins > are looking > to be able to search for an arbitrary string in the MsgText field that > can be anywhere > in the field not just at the beginning. So

RE: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread James Drabb
-Original Message- From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:50 AM To: James Drabb Cc: Jigal van Hemert; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FULLTEXT and large database > You may try increasing your sort_buffer_size and key_buffer_size, > see if that

RE: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread James Drabb
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: James Drabb; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FULLTEXT and large database > One thing that ocurs to me is that, if you are using it for syslog type >

Re: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread Brent Baisley
You may try increasing your sort_buffer_size and key_buffer_size, see if that speeds up the searching and sorting. On May 25, 2004, at 9:54 AM, James Drabb wrote: When I run a FULLTEXT search and view the process list of MySQL in MySQL, I see in the state column that MySQL is "sorting results" wh

Re: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: "James Drabb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Jigal van Hemert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > So is there any way to efficiently search a TEXT field of 5 million rows > for exact phrases? In this case the MsgText field contains a > descriptive > error message that the admins want to search for to h

RE: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread James Drabb
-Original Message- From: Jigal van Hemert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FULLTEXT and large database > > Using Match() Against() showed the Kiwi_MsgText FULLTEXT index getting > > used. > > Correct. Ful

Re: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread Alec . Cawley
> > > > I have a web app to allow admins to search this table. Any searches by > > MsgDate, MsgTime, MsgPriority or MsgHostname or any combination of them > > runs > > pretty fast. When I try to do a search against MsgText, it takes quite > > a > > while. I originally tried INSTR(), however

Re: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread Brent Baisley
You probably don't have to worry about hitting MySQL limits. Everything I've read and heard say you hit OS limits first. For full text searches, you definitely want to use match/against. If you are only interested in one months worth of data, are you deleting "old" records on a regular basis

Re: FULLTEXT and large database

2004-05-25 Thread Jigal van Hemert
> of data. How big of a DB can MySQL handle? After two days of running > there > are 2,160,000 or so records in the database. Size of database is generally limited by available diskspace. MyISAM tables are stored in seperate files per table, so the filesystem might initially limit the size since