What columns do you have indexed on your event_log table? Can you post the
output from SHOW CREATE TABLE? How long does the query run for?
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From: Andy Wallace [mailto:awall...@ihouseweb.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:29 AM
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Subject: Table/select p
Interesting... we have a process that runs once a night to delete old data (we
are only
keeping events from the last 6 months).
And I believe you have described the primary issue exactly - the read is
locking the
table, so the writes get blocked. All inserts do happen at the end of the
table,
Do you delete data from the table ?
MyISAM will only grant a write lock when there are no locks on the table -
including implicit read locks. That may be your problem.
There is a single situation when concurrent reads and writes are possible on
MyISAM, however: when your table has no holes in the
I had this same issue a while back and solved it by writing my events to
a disk-based file and periodically importing them into the event log
MyISAM table. This way, even if your select statements lock the table,
it won't affect the performance of your application. Of course, this
may require
