inconsistent query times for same query

2003-10-29 Thread bsavard
Hi everyone. I'm using MySQL 4.0.16 with W2K/SP4 on a 512KB RAM/1.2GHz Athlon machine (my dev workstation). I'm having a strange problem: when I execute a query via the MySQL Control Center, it takes 10 seconds to return. About three seconds into the query, I issue a mysqladmin processlist and see

Re: inconsistent query times for same query

2003-10-29 Thread Joseph Bueno
There is caching but it is at OS level: on first query, data are fetched from disk; other queries read directly from file system cache. Hope this helps Joseph Bueno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I'm using MySQL 4.0.16 with W2K/SP4 on a 512KB RAM/1.2GHz Athlon machine (my dev workstation).

Re: inconsistent query times for same query

2003-10-29 Thread bsavard
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Re: inconsistent query times for same query

2003-10-29 Thread Joseph Bueno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Joseph. I just to another look at the query and it actually takes 65 seconds on the first run, not 10 seconds, so this is important for me to understand. So my next questions are: Is there any way to tune the OS file system cache? This is very OS system dependent