Re: ORDER BY optimisation

2001-02-27 Thread John Jensen
You neglected to say how much memory your system has. I am a newbie, but one of the first things I learned about mysql, is that it needs a lot of memory to handle any kind of load. If you do not have at least 500meg, add some. On 26 Feb 2001, at 13:22, Joseph Bueno wrote: Hi list, I have

ORDER BY optimisation

2001-02-26 Thread Joseph Bueno
Hi list, I have some trouble trying to optimise SELECT queries that use ORDER BY condition. I have found out that each time the server is busy (100% CPU usage), it is due to queries that show up in 'mysqladmin processlist' report with 'Sorting result' state in 'Command' column. I am trying to