[PHP-DB] major performance disparities with mysql/php

2002-03-20 Thread Henry Hank


Hello - I'm posted this to the mysql list but got no response.  While it sounds
like a mysql problem, I'm convinced that it is a PHP problem (see bottom of
note.)

  I've recently installed mySQL on a RH7.2 box without any problems - it runs
great.  I've been testing some long running queries (full table scans, etc)
under different scenarios, and get wildy differing results.   Between each test
case, I was flushing all tables and re-starting the mysql deamon.  When I run
one of my longest queries in the mysql command line client, it runs in about 77
seconds. 

When I run the identical query via a simple PHP script running on the box, the
same query takes about 930 seconds to complete.  For the life of me, I can not 
figure out why the identical query would run differently from the command line 
than from PHP.  I've repeated this test about 10 times just to be sure - and it

is entirely repeatable: command line - about a minute - PHP - about 16 times
longer.  Any ideas or suggestions?  

 I'm running RH 7.2 (2.4.9-21) on a Dell Poweredge 2550, 1GB memory, RAID, with
mysql version 3.23.41 (the standard install unchanged from the RH media).  Here
is the query...pretty simple:

insert into summary_table
   select frb, denom, series, 
   count(*) as cnt, 
   sum(bills) as bills, 
   sum(bills_hit) as bills_hit, 
   sum(total_hits) as total_hits 
   from detail_table

If it a memory/cpu resource problem, how do I set RH to give PHP and Apache the
same priority as the mysql deamon?  

I've also written a small Perl script to execute the same queries, and that
runs in 70 seconds (same as mysql client), so there must be some
memory/processor limitation placed on PHP that prevents it from running as
quickly as these other methods.  Any ideas/suggestions?

Many thanks in advance..

 -Hank

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Re: [PHP-DB] major performance disparities with mysql/php

2002-03-20 Thread Henrique Flach Latorre Moreno

Hank,
i don´t know, but i thing the PHP have a time out for the PHP process and 
a time out for the MySQL connection,
cause i a lot of people that don´t like to stay 70 seconds in front of 
computer :)
probably have some way to extend the time out

At 05:30 20/03/02 -0800, you wrote:

Hello - I'm posted this to the mysql list but got no response.  While it 
sounds
like a mysql problem, I'm convinced that it is a PHP problem (see bottom of
note.)

   I've recently installed mySQL on a RH7.2 box without any problems - it runs
great.  I've been testing some long running queries (full table scans, etc)
under different scenarios, and get wildy differing results.   Between each 
test
case, I was flushing all tables and re-starting the mysql deamon.  When I run
one of my longest queries in the mysql command line client, it runs in 
about 77
seconds.

When I run the identical query via a simple PHP script running on the box, the
same query takes about 930 seconds to complete.  For the life of me, I can 
not
figure out why the identical query would run differently from the command 
line
than from PHP.  I've repeated this test about 10 times just to be sure - 
and it

is entirely repeatable: command line - about a minute - PHP - about 16 times
longer.  Any ideas or suggestions?

  I'm running RH 7.2 (2.4.9-21) on a Dell Poweredge 2550, 1GB memory, 
 RAID, with
mysql version 3.23.41 (the standard install unchanged from the RH 
media).  Here
is the query...pretty simple:

 insert into summary_table
select frb, denom, series,
count(*) as cnt,
sum(bills) as bills,
sum(bills_hit) as bills_hit,
sum(total_hits) as total_hits
from detail_table

If it a memory/cpu resource problem, how do I set RH to give PHP and 
Apache the
same priority as the mysql deamon?

I've also written a small Perl script to execute the same queries, and that
runs in 70 seconds (same as mysql client), so there must be some
memory/processor limitation placed on PHP that prevents it from running as
quickly as these other methods.  Any ideas/suggestions?

Many thanks in advance..

  -Hank

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