You might want to read the comments to this posting: 

http://www.bitbybit.dk/carsten/blog/?p=116



Several tools/methods for controlling and analyzing the slow query log are

suggested there.



Best,



/ Carsten



On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:09:30 +0530, Ananda Kumar <anan...@gmail.com>

wrote:

> slow query log will also have sql's which are not using indexes(doing

full

> table scan).

> May be those queries with "ZERO SECOND" run on small table without using

> indexes.

> 

> regards

> anandkl

> 

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Machiel Richards

> <machi...@rdc.co.za>wrote:

> 

>> Hi All

>>

>>

>>

>>                I found my problem and this was kind of a blonde moment

>>                for

>> me...

>>

>>

>>

>>                When configuring the log_slow_queries parameter, it was

>> configured as follows:  log_slow_queries=1

>>

>>

>>

>>                This the file being created is called 1 and the 1 does

not

>> mean it is enabled.

>>

>>

>>

>>                I have fixed this now but need to wait for a gap to

reboot

>> again to have it set properly. (have to live with the filename 1 for

the

>> time being.)

>>

>>

>>

>>                I did however find something interesting though, while

>> looking at the queries being logged.

>>

>>

>>

>>                The slow_query_time is set to 2 (2 seconds i am

assuming)

>> however all the queries being logged states that it ran for 0 seconds.

>>

>>

>>

>>                I am busy doing explain plans on some of them now but

not

>> really sure what to look for yet (Rather new to MySQL and hope google

>> will

>> have some answers J  )

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> Thank you

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> From: John Daisley [mailto:mg_s...@hotmail.com]

>> Sent: 23 February 2010 10:24 AM

>> To: machi...@rdc.co.za; mysql@lists.mysql.com

>> Subject: RE: slow queries not being logged

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> > From: machi...@rdc.co.za

>> > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com

>> > Subject: slow queries not being logged

>> > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:59:13 +0200

>> >

>> > Good day all

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > I hope you can assist me with this one...

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > We have a client where the slow query log was disabled.

>> >

>>

>> Slow query log is on the server only.  If you are saying you have

enabled

>> the slow query log and the servers query log is empty can you post your

>> my.cnf/my.ini file. Also make sure --long-query-time is set

>> appropriately.

>>

>>

>> >

>> >

>> > We noticed that the slow query amount (when viewing global

>> > status) has skyrocketed during the last 2 weeks going up to over 2

>> million

>> > (from 160 million queries).

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > We wanted to look at these queries to see if it can be

>> > optimised to reduce the amount and went through the whole database

>> restart

>> > routine to enable the slow query log again (they are running version

>> > 5.0

>> so

>> > had to restart).

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > However, even though the slow query log is enabled, it is

>> > not logging the queries to the file specified.

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > Can someone please assist in why this is not being done? I

>> > thought that it might be logging to a default filename but there is

>> > only

>> one

>> > slow queries log file in the directory and it is empty.

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > Checking the global status again, it showed 29 000 slow

>> > queries since this morning (3 hours ago) but nothing in the logs.

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > Your help will be appreciated.

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > Regards

>> >

>> >

>> >

>>

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