On Friday 07 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, Rick Jansen wrote: > On a P4-2.6Ghz, 1Gb mem server of ours, mysql keeps getting slower and > slower because the database gets bigger and bigger. > At the moment the database is 5.5Gb big, the biggest table being 1.1Gb.
What OS are you using? > 'top' shows that mysqld is using 264M of memory. So I presume the rest is > used for disk caching. How do I know for sure that mysql is using the rest > of the memory, or how do I get mysql to use it all? That seems fine we are using about the same. > Would an extra gig of memory help mysql, or linux, to be faster? Will MySQL > put it's tables in the extra memory so it won't have to read from disk > anymore? We are running on a Gig of RAm with the smae size of DB so I doubt it. > What I *really* need to know, is would our server get quicker from > installing an extra 1Gb of ram, before we take the chance and purchase the > expensive PC800-RIMMS. If you could provide me with your MySQL version and your OS I can advise a bit more. We had major problems with slow mysql up until a few days ago which we have now solved, depending on your set up I could help out. Cheers John Wards SportNetwork.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
