RE: database server upgrade

2001-07-23 Thread Basil Hussain
Hi, Quick question about the SHOW TABLE STATUS command and the Data_free info in particular. You say: If it is high, then it's time to run OPTIMIZE TABLE... What is considered high? As I'm looking at my output, I see that most of my tables show a value of 0, however, some have a value

Re: database server upgrade

2001-07-20 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:21:05PM -0700, Mike Wexler wrote: We currently have a dedicate server for MySQL. The server is a dual pentium III (1Ghz) with 2GB of RAM in it. It also has 2 18GB 10,000 RPM drives in it arranged in a Raid 1 configuration (mirror). Sometime in the next 3-6 months

RE: database server upgrade

2001-07-20 Thread Basil Hussain
Hi, We currently have a dedicate server for MySQL. The server is a dual pentium III (1Ghz) with 2GB of RAM in it. It also has 2 18GB 10,000 RPM drives in it arranged in a Raid 1 configuration (mirror). Sometime in the next 3-6 months we will be maxing out its capacity. (We were maxed

Re: database server upgrade

2001-07-20 Thread Mike Wexler
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:21:05PM -0700, Mike Wexler wrote: We currently have a dedicate server for MySQL. The server is a dual pentium III (1Ghz) with 2GB of RAM in it. It also has 2 18GB 10,000 RPM drives in it arranged in a Raid 1 configuration (mirror).

Re: database server upgrade

2001-07-20 Thread Mike Wexler
Basil Hussain wrote: Hi, We currently have a dedicate server for MySQL. The server is a dual pentium III (1Ghz) with 2GB of RAM in it. It also has 2 18GB 10,000 RPM drives in it arranged in a Raid 1 configuration (mirror). Sometime in the next 3-6 months we will be maxing out

Re: database server upgrade

2001-07-20 Thread Mike Wexler
Yes, you should definitely look at option #9 first. Here's a few pointers to some things that immediately spring off the screen at me: | Open_tables | 1296 | | Open_files | 2180712| | Open_streams | 0 | | Opened_tables

RE: database server upgrade

2001-07-20 Thread Basil Hussain
Hi, Thank you very much for the detailed analysis! One question: where did he get all this data from? You can show all of MySQL's status and configuration parameters by issuing these statements: SHOW STATUS; SHOW VARIABLES; Also, the following can come in handy if you want to see info

RE: database server upgrade

2001-07-20 Thread Basil Hussain
Hi, Strange. My understanding was that RAID 5 was good for read bandwidth but that keeping the parity disk uptodate slowed it down for write bandwidth. Well, what you say is almost true to a certain extent. Firstly, with RAID 5 parity is striped across the disks too, so there is no

Re: database server upgrade

2001-07-20 Thread Jason Burfield
Quick question about the SHOW TABLE STATUS command and the Data_free info in particular. You say: If it is high, then it's time to run OPTIMIZE TABLE... What is considered high? As I'm looking at my output, I see that most of my tables show a value of 0, however, some have a value around 300

Re: database server upgrade

2001-07-20 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:20:00AM -0700, Mike Wexler wrote: I already increased table_cache from 128 to 2048. Which helped. And last night I increase key_buffer from 16MB to 64MB. Maybe it should be even larger? Oh, you can easily make it quite a bit higher. On my 1GB systems, I have it

database server upgrade

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Wexler
We currently have a dedicate server for MySQL. The server is a dual pentium III (1Ghz) with 2GB of RAM in it. It also has 2 18GB 10,000 RPM drives in it arranged in a Raid 1 configuration (mirror). Sometime in the next 3-6 months we will be maxing out its capacity. (We were maxed out a few days

Re: database server upgrade

2001-07-19 Thread Steve Brazill
portions, especially for concurrent queries). Hope this helps... - Original Message - From: Mike Wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:21 PM Subject: database server upgrade We currently have a dedicate server for MySQL. The server is a dual