Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-09 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. You may want to try a combined index (RecordNumber, WordNumber) on wordindex, because the indexes you have can only restrict on field (RecordNumber in the EXPLAIN below) e.g. ALTER TABLE wordindex ADD UNIQUE(RecordNumber, WordNumber); I presume that the RecordNumber/WordNumber pairs are

amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Tim Samshuijzen
Hello, I don't understand why my queries are so incredibly slow. We have MySQL on a 800MHz Linux machine with 513Mb. Most queries look like this: SELECT B.* FROM maintable AS M, wordindex AS YL1, wordindex AS YL2, wordindex AS YL3 WHERE YL1.Word = 'billy' AND YL1.RecordNumber =

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Tim Samshuijzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone out there who wants to save me and our company? You missed the important first step: EXPLAIN the query. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread René Tegel
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:04 PM Subject: amazingly slow Hello, I don't understand why my queries are so incredibly slow. We have MySQL on a 800MHz Linux machine with 513Mb. Most queries look like this: SELECT B.* FROM maintable AS M, wordin

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Tim Samshuijzen
the query is amazingly slow. Tim At 10:52 AM 6-2-2001 +, you wrote: Tim Samshuijzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone out there who wants to save me and our company? You missed the important first step: EXPLAIN the query. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Tim Samshuijzen
PROTECTED] writes: This still does not tell me why the query is amazingly slow. What else is happening on the system? what does, say, a vmstat 5 give? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com

RE: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Kirk
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: amazingly slow Dear Dave, Thanks for your reply. (The table actually works with word numbers, as the words are present in a hash table. I explained it the way I did because functionally it is the same. So the actual search is for WordNumber values instead of Word

Re: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Tim Samshuijzen
complete within short time. can you send the output of DESCRIBE db.tablename of all used tables? regards, rene - Original Message - From: "Tim Samshuijzen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Ren Tegel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:07 PM Subject: Re: amazin

RE: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Tim Samshuijzen
their performance enhancement. could that be true? dan -Original Message- From: Tim Samshuijzen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 6 February 2001 04:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: amazingly slow Dear Dave, Thanks for your reply. (The table actually works with word

RE: amazingly slow

2001-02-06 Thread Julian Strickland
Message- From: Ren Tegel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2001 14:35 To: Tim Samshuijzen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: amazingly slow Tim, Hmmm... so you are suggesting the format of the query might be the cause of this slow response. I find it hard to believe, unless