Re: performace question

2002-11-06 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:28:00AM -0500, Murad Nayal wrote: > > thanks jeremy for the reply > > Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > > > > > > > > > any idea why is it that the mysqld daemon is not using the CPUs and/or > > > why is this taking so long?? > > > > You might benefit from a larger key buffer

Re: performace question

2002-11-05 Thread Murad Nayal
thanks jeremy for the reply Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > > > > > any idea why is it that the mysqld daemon is not using the CPUs and/or > > why is this taking so long?? > > You might benefit from a larger key buffer. > > Can you show us the output of "vmstat 1" for 10 or 20 seconds? > What woul

Re: performace question

2002-11-05 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:18:57PM -0500, Murad Nayal wrote: > > > Hello, > > I am struggling trying to optimize the performance of mysql over rather > large databases. for now there is one issue I don't understand and I am > wondering if anybody can help with any hints. > > I am trying to cre

performace question

2002-11-05 Thread Murad Nayal
Hello, I am struggling trying to optimize the performance of mysql over rather large databases. for now there is one issue I don't understand and I am wondering if anybody can help with any hints. I am trying to create an index for a large table (100,000,000 rows). the index is for a column of