Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-09 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. You may want to try a combined index (RecordNumber, WordNumber) on wordindex, because the indexes you have can only restrict on field (RecordNumber in the EXPLAIN below) e.g. ALTER TABLE wordindex ADD UNIQUE(RecordNumber, WordNumber); I presume that the RecordNumber/WordNumber pairs are uni

RE: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Julian Strickland
g it three times > -Original Message- > From: René Tegel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 06 February 2001 14:35 > To: Tim Samshuijzen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: amazingly slow > > Tim, > > Hmmm... so you are suggesting the format of the query mig

RE: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Tim Samshuijzen
s over time they lose their performance enhancement. >could that be true? > >dan > > >-Original Message- >From: Tim Samshuijzen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, 6 February 2001 04:50 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: amazingly slow > > > &g

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Tim Samshuijzen
Tegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:07 PM >Subject: Re: amazingly slow > > > >Yep, all requested fields are indexed. > >At 02:25 PM 6-2-2001 +0100, you wrote: >>Tim, >>Just kidding about the 513 Mb >> >>you put an

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread René Tegel
? regards, rene - Original Message - From: "Tim Samshuijzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "René Tegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:07 PM Subject: Re: amazingly slow Yep, all requested fields are indexed. At 02:25 PM 6-2-2001 +0100, you

RE: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Kirk
50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: amazingly slow Dear Dave, Thanks for your reply. (The table actually works with word numbers, as the words are present in a hash table. I explained it the way I did because functionally it is the same. So the actual search is for WordNumber values instead of

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Tim Samshuijzen
Dear Dave, Here is the output from vmstat 5: >vmstat 5 procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id 0 0 0 3936 2980 10568 218856 8 411 33 9 0 3 10 0 0

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread René Tegel
gards, rene - Original Message - From: "Tim Samshuijzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "René Tegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 1:58 PM Subject: Re: amazingly slow Dear René, Thanks for your reply. Oops, the 513 was a typing mistake.

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Tim Samshuijzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This still does not tell me why the query is amazingly slow. What else is happening on the system? what does, say, a vmstat 5 give? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Tim Samshuijzen
Dear René, Thanks for your reply. Oops, the 513 was a typing mistake. And yes, all the requested fields are indexed. CREATE TABLE wordindex ( WordNumber int(11) NOT NULL, RecordNumber int(11) NOT NULL, KEY WordNumber (WordNumber), KEY RecordNumber (RecordNumber) ); CREATE TABLE

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Tim Samshuijzen
Dear Dave, Thanks for your reply. (The table actually works with word numbers, as the words are present in a hash table. I explained it the way I did because functionally it is the same. So the actual search is for WordNumber values instead of Word values.) I did the EXPLAIN as you suggested

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread René Tegel
Tim, 1. i'd remove 1 Mb from your 513 Mb machine... maybe it's an very old edo simm or something. 2. you put an index on all requested fields (maintable.recordnumber and wordindex.word) ? I bet not. > - Original Message - > From: "Tim Samshuijzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Tim Samshuijzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone out there who wants to save me and our company? You missed the important first step: EXPLAIN the query. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-pur