Re: MySQL Performance on Dual Processor machine

2002-04-30 Thread Ken Menzel
Hi Jay, There are other things that could be affecting the performance besides mysql. If both machines are idle. The long query should run about the same on the new machine. One thread will only run on one processor no matter how you compile mysql. For compiling MySQK on FreeBSD use the

Re: MySQL Performance on Dual Processor machine

2002-04-30 Thread Joseph Bueno
Hi, I don't have any experience with FreeBSD; however, I use MySQL on SMP servers with Linux. 1. due to MySQL architecture (1 thread per connection) you should not expect any performance inprovement on a dual processor for a SINGLE SQL query compared to an uniprocessor machine. This is what

RE: MySQL Performance on Dual Processor machine

2002-04-30 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I would suspect other things first such as the my.cnf configuration (show variables) or has the kernel been optimised on the old box. Did you check kernel configurations and disk subsystems? Also the default process size on FreeBSD is 256Meg, so more memory won't help much unless you

RE: MySQL Performance on Dual Processor machine

2002-04-30 Thread adam nelson
the indexes don't copy. -Original Message- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MySQL Performance on Dual Processor machine [snip] I would suspect other things first such as the my.cnf configuration (show

Re: MySQL Performance on Dual Processor machine

2002-04-30 Thread Ken Menzel
PM Subject: RE: MySQL Performance on Dual Processor machine [snip] I would suspect other things first such as the my.cnf configuration (show variables) or has the kernel been optimised on the old box. Did you check kernel configurations and disk subsystems? Also the default process size

Re: MySQL Performance on Dual Processor machine

2002-04-30 Thread Frankie Gravato
Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:09 PM Subject: Re: MySQL Performance on Dual Processor machine Just becareful not to use too much memory unless you raise the DMAX and such values (see /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT ) if mysql runs out of memory things