Re: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-29 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi René, everybody! René Fournier wrote: [[...]] However, even if the Index can't fit in memory (4GB of RAM, lots free), just reading it from disk should allow sub-millisecond response, no? No chance! Of course, performance of disk drives varies, but AFAIK typical values are in the range of

Re: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-28 Thread René Fournier
Even weirder, I came back to my laptop a couple hours later. And now the same queries are taking 3-10 seconds instead of 0.01 seconds. What could be causing this? On 2009-12-28, at 1:19 PM, René Fournier wrote: Hmm, weird. I just re-imported the data (after drop/create table, etc.), and now

RE: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-28 Thread Gavin Towey
To: René Fournier Cc: mysql Subject: Re: Why does this query take so long? Even weirder, I came back to my laptop a couple hours later. And now the same queries are taking 3-10 seconds instead of 0.01 seconds. What could be causing this? On 2009-12-28, at 1:19 PM, René Fournier wrote: Hmm

Re: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-28 Thread René Fournier
:16 AM To: René Fournier Cc: mysql Subject: Re: Why does this query take so long? Even weirder, I came back to my laptop a couple hours later. And now the same queries are taking 3-10 seconds instead of 0.01 seconds. What could be causing this? On 2009-12-28, at 1:19 PM, René Fournier

Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-27 Thread René Fournier
So... there is an index, and it's supposedly used: mysql EXPLAIN SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589

Re: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-27 Thread René Fournier
So just to clarify (hello?), the index which *should* be used (EXPLAIN says so) and *should* make the query run faster than 4 seconds either isn't used (why?) or simply doesn't speed up the query (again, why?).

Re: Why does this query take so long?

2009-12-27 Thread René Fournier
Hmm, weird. I just re-imported the data (after drop/create table, etc.), and now the spatial queries run fast. Has anyone seen this sort of thing happen? Maybe the Index got corrupted somehow, and then MySQL had to do a full table scan (even though EXPLAIN indicated it would use the Spatial

Why does 1st query take so long?

2001-01-16 Thread j.d.stumbles
I've noticed that when developing queries involving complex joins on tables I sometimes seem to get appallingly long times the first time I run a query, but the second and subsequent time I run it - even substituting a different value for a field value I'm matching on - the query runs

Re: Why does 1st query take so long?

2001-01-16 Thread Milo Stefani
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "mySQL list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: Why does 1st query take so long? I've noticed that when developing queries involving complex joins on tables I sometimes seem to get appall

Why does query hang? [was: Why does 1st query take so long?

2001-01-16 Thread John Stumbles
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jeremy D. Zawodny wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:21:19PM +, John Stumbles wrote: I can't readily reproduce the first-time big difference scenario. OK, I can now: I have a table - MAC_connections:Data records:6689

Re: Why does query hang? [was: Why does 1st query take so long?

2001-01-16 Thread Drew Wilder-Goodwin
what does a 'show processlist' reveal? On 17 Jan 2001 00:08:23 +, John Stumbles wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jeremy D. Zawodny wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:21:19PM +, John Stumbles wrote: I can't readily reproduce the first-time big difference scenario. OK, I can