Re: slow to a crawl

2002-04-11 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:39:03PM +0200, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > > Hm. From vmstat output it looks like the second query is disk-bound on > writing. Most probably writing temporary table(s) as EXPLAIN tells so > (compare http://www.mysql.com/doc/E/X/EXPLAIN.html). Agreed. [snip] > Well, t

Re: slow to a crawl

2002-04-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. Well, your are right, indexes are not used at all, so ignore everything about key_buffer and indexes I said, regarding this issue (but key_buffer=16MG seems small with 1GB anyhow ;-) Depending on how often you need the query, and how much columns are involved, you may want to consider to add

Re: slow to a crawl

2002-04-09 Thread Cliff Daniel
Benjamin Pflugmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > First, key_buffer=16M seems a bit low for me with 13 million rows > (well, depends on the indexes, and how much free memory you have, of > course). 1 gig, plenty free. > If I am not mistaken, sort_buffer/tmp_table_size are the one mo

Re: slow to a crawl

2002-04-09 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. First, key_buffer=16M seems a bit low for me with 13 million rows (well, depends on the indexes, and how much free memory you have, of course). If I am not mistaken, sort_buffer/tmp_table_size are the one mostly needed for this query, I think. Btw, you can get more info about the query wi