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

slow to a crawl

2002-04-09 Thread Cliff Daniel
I have one query, that basically reads from one table of 13 million rows, groups it by two fields, and inserts into a rollup table. The result set ends up being about 31,000 rows. This runs in about 2 minutes which is acceptable. However, I add an additional group by field, which will probably

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

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 mostly