Re: Table size vs Memory requirements?

On Nov 22, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Ryan Chan wrote: Hello, Is it common heard from people that if you have large table (assume MyISAM in my case), you need large memory in order to have the key/index in memory for performance, otherwise, table scan on disk is slow. But how to estimate how much

Table size vs Memory requirements?

Hello, Is it common heard from people that if you have large table (assume MyISAM in my case), you need large memory in order to have the key/index in memory for performance, otherwise, table scan on disk is slow. But how to estimate how much memory I need? Consider a simple case, a MyISAM

Re: Table size vs Memory requirements?

In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan Chan said: Is it common heard from people that if you have large table (assume MyISAM in my case), you need large memory in order to have the key/index in memory for performance, otherwise, table scan on disk is slow. But how to estimate how much memory I