Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-18 Thread Markus Fischer
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:37:46AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote : > In the last episode (Dec 18), Markus Fischer said: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:38:14AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote : > > > Raising sort_buffer_size and join_buffer_size may also help if your > > > queries pull a lot of records. > > >

Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 18), Markus Fischer said: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:38:14AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote : > > Raising sort_buffer_size and join_buffer_size may also help if your > > queries pull a lot of records. > > From what I read from the manual, sort_buffer_size is only used >

Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-18 Thread Markus Fischer
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:38:14AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote : > In the last episode (Dec 16), Markus Fischer said: > > I'm investigating a performance problem with mysql server set up. The > > server is running linux with 1GB ram. I'ld like to tune the > > configuration of the server to use as much

Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-18 Thread Markus Fischer
Hi, On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:23:05PM +1100, Chris Nolan wrote : > How heavy is your usage of TEMPORARY TABLES? I don't use them much > myself, but I'm sure that the others on the list will have something > to say in that regard. Here are the relevant numbers: Created_tmp_disk_tables

Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 16), Markus Fischer said: > I'm investigating a performance problem with mysql server set up. The > server is running linux with 1GB ram. I'ld like to tune the > configuration of the server to use as much RAM as possible without > swapping to the disc because of the big slo

Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-16 Thread Chris Nolan
Hi! How heavy is your usage of TEMPORARY TABLES? I don't use them much myself, but I'm sure that the others on the list will have something to say in that regard. To get a better look at MySQL's usage of memory, you could try looking at the output of SHOW STATUS . Regards, Chris Markus Fisc