The server is mainly a Web server (Linux RedHat 7.3, P3 1GHz, server chipset, 500M) with CPU usage <5%
CPU states: 1.7% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 97.8% idle Mem: 513900K av, 502676K used, 11224K free, 0K shrd, 114640K buff Swap: 522072K av, 0K used, 522072K free 321032K cached The used RAM moves from 470M tp 510M up and down. --- my.cnf is very basic: [root@webserv1 etc]# more my.cnf [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock skip-innodb [mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/var/lib [safe_mysqld] err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --- >From phpMmyAdmin SHOW STATUS I get: Max_used_connections 9 Other info sounds complicated but I could dump here. --- SHOW VARIABLES back_log 50 basedir /usr/ bdb_cache_size 8388600 bdb_log_buffer_size 32768 bdb_home /var/lib/mysql/ bdb_max_lock 10000 How can I change bdb_home /var/lib/mysql/ to avoid link to /home/database/ ? Then shall I have to changed datadir /var/lib/mysql/ as well? (I want my DBs to be in /home/database/) Also get: max_allowed_packet 1048576 max_binlog_cache_size 4294967295 max_binlog_size 1073741824 max_connections 100 max_connect_errors 10 max_delayed_threads 20 max_heap_table_size 16777216 max_join_size 4294967295 max_sort_length 1024 max_user_connections 0 max_tmp_tables 32 max_write_lock_count 4294967295 myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size 256 myisam_max_sort_file_size 2047 myisam_recover_options 0 myisam_sort_buffer_size 8388608 net_buffer_length 16384 net_read_timeout 30 net_retry_count 10 net_write_timeout 60 open_files_limit 0 --- In phpMyAdmin I saw an "optimize table" but don't find detail in the doc...is it worth it? --- I also find phpMyAdmin slow to display table content... --- Any idea? JM -----Original Message----- From: Simon Windsor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 12:26 PM To: MySQL Subject: Re: Optimizing Hi What else is running on the machine ? What processes are using the computers resources ? Use top to find out. What are the memory parameters used in my.cnf ? The answers to these questions will provide some helpfull answers to your problem. Simon On Monday 30 Dec 2002 11:16 am, BPF Webmaster wrote: > I migrated my site from a low end PC mutualized hosting to a brand new > P3 1GHz 512M server I now manage myself. Unfortunately I found MySQL > slower now, the time for a PHP page is now about 6 seconds and was > about .6 before!!! > > I haven't done any optimization and the DB is the same, so the size > (about 10,000 records). > > The only 2 weaknesses I saw is that: > 1- I use a RedHat 7.3 RPM (haven't compiled myself) > 2- the database folder is on another partition linked from /var/... to > /home/... but on the same disk (a fast 10Krpm UW-SCSI). > > What would you advise? > > JM > > An example at http://www.labdv.com/forum/index.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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