Re: Speed and Hardware

2001-04-05 Thread Michael T. Babcock
We cache all of our output for 1 second. We have larger values for cache timeouts for pages that change less often (hourly / daily), but the 1 second cache allows the proxy web accelerator to serve content without re-requesting the same thing as two milliseconds ago (reducing concurrent MySQL acc

Re: Speed and Hardware

2001-04-05 Thread Greg Cope
Andy Sharp wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm facing an issue with my primary mySQL server. It powers a web site, > which loads almost 100% dynamic data. At peak times of the day, it > seems to me that the Database is becomming maxxed. (Thus bogging the > site) > > I'm aware that there are simply too ma

Re: Speed and Hardware

2001-04-04 Thread Jason Landry
Two ideas that come immediately to mind-- 1) Is the web server on the same machine as MySQL? 2) Have you looked at replication? You could have n slaves/webservers that display data, and all wrtes go back to the master. There's a rather detailed analysis in the docs that explain how to figure o