On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:39:03PM +0200, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > > Hm. From vmstat output it looks like the second query is disk-bound on > writing. Most probably writing temporary table(s) as EXPLAIN tells so > (compare http://www.mysql.com/doc/E/X/EXPLAIN.html).
Agreed. [snip] > Well, to sum up: Your first query mainly seems to be bound on disk > read speed (your table is about 1GB?). The second one needs a much > larger tmp table (which it also has to sort!) and "trashes" your disk, > that's probably why the machine feels unresponsive. That's what I'm thinking as well. > For now, I have no further ideas than playing with "tmp_table_size" > and trying to use an index over all column. Please do post the results. I'm very curious to see what helps. I don't expect an index to make any difference. But ya never know. > Anybody else? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.47-max: up 63 days, processed 1,719,432,003 queries (312/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php