Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-18 Thread Markus Fischer
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:37:46AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote : > In the last episode (Dec 18), Markus Fischer said: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:38:14AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote : > > > Raising sort_buffer_size and join_buffer_size may also help if your > > > queries pull a lot of records. > > >

Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 18), Markus Fischer said: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:38:14AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote : > > Raising sort_buffer_size and join_buffer_size may also help if your > > queries pull a lot of records. > > From what I read from the manual, sort_buffer_size is only used >

Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-18 Thread Markus Fischer
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:38:14AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote : > In the last episode (Dec 16), Markus Fischer said: > > I'm investigating a performance problem with mysql server set up. The > > server is running linux with 1GB ram. I'ld like to tune the > > configuration of the server to use as much

Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-18 Thread Markus Fischer
Hi, On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:23:05PM +1100, Chris Nolan wrote : > How heavy is your usage of TEMPORARY TABLES? I don't use them much > myself, but I'm sure that the others on the list will have something > to say in that regard. Here are the relevant numbers: Created_tmp_disk_tables

Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 16), Markus Fischer said: > I'm investigating a performance problem with mysql server set up. The > server is running linux with 1GB ram. I'ld like to tune the > configuration of the server to use as much RAM as possible without > swapping to the disc because of the big slo

Re: Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-16 Thread Chris Nolan
Hi! How heavy is your usage of TEMPORARY TABLES? I don't use them much myself, but I'm sure that the others on the list will have something to say in that regard. To get a better look at MySQL's usage of memory, you could try looking at the output of SHOW STATUS . Regards, Chris Markus Fisc

Performance problems using 1GB Linux server and trying to avoid swapping

2003-12-16 Thread Markus Fischer
Hello, I'm investigating a performance problem with mysql server set up. The server is running linux with 1GB ram. I'ld like to tune the configuration of the server to use as much RAM as possible without swapping to the disc because of the big slow down. The current config