I added more indexes. The 20 minute report just took 40 seconds *grin* Thanks Everyone,
Ed > -----Original Message----- > From: Curt Zirzow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP performance > > * Thus wrote Ed Lazor: > > Any recommendations on how to make PHP run faster? > > To help figure out which queries are running slow there is the > php.ini setting: > > mysql.trace_mode=On > > Using this will have the php library analyze your queries and if > any of them do table scans php will issue a warning about it, which > can be very helpful finding out where you need indexes. > > > > > > > > > I have a script pulling a lot of data from MySQL and generating reports > and > > spitting out data (flush) as it's processing so I can see what's going > on. > > It was taking around 10 seconds to process each order. I reduced the > total > > number of orders being processed. I expected the script to take less > time > > because there were fewer orders to process, but I was surprised to > discover > > that time spent processing each order also reduced almost in half. I > > figured PHP's memory limit per script at 8mb might be the bottleneck, so > I > > upped it to 128, restarted apache, and reran the script. Increasing > > available memory had no effect. > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php