Re: Strategies for optimizing a read-only table

2003-11-10 Thread Pete Harlan
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:03:35PM +0100, Harald Fuchs wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > gerald_clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Matt W wrote: > > >> Hi Jeremy, > >> > >> Sorry, it seems like I'm saying this a lot lately. Is it not true that > >> if the whole table will fit in [f

Re: Strategies for optimizing a read-only table

2003-11-10 Thread gerald_clark
Harald Fuchs wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gerald_clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt W wrote: Hi Jeremy, Sorry, it seems like I'm saying this a lot lately. Is it not true that if the whole table will fit in [free] RAM, that the OS will cache the file data and there is no

Re: Strategies for optimizing a read-only table

2003-11-10 Thread gerald_clark
Matt W wrote: Hi Jeremy, Sorry, it seems like I'm saying this a lot lately. Is it not true that if the whole table will fit in [free] RAM, that the OS will cache the file data and there is no need for a RAM disk. I don't really see how performance would be any different than using a RAM disk. E

Re: Strategies for optimizing a read-only table

2003-11-09 Thread Matt W
ySQL 4's query cache! :-) Have you thought about this? Or do your queries differ too much that the cache can't be used? Hope this helps. Matt - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Zawodny" Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 11:48 PM Subject: Re: Strategies for optimizing a

Re: Strategies for optimizing a read-only table

2003-11-08 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:45:08PM -0500, Jonathan Terhorst wrote: > > I could have sworn I posted this once before, but apparently it got > lost somewhere. Apologies if you're seeing this twice: > > I'm wondering what I can do with MySQL to optimize reads (SELECTs) > on a read-only table where da