Re: MySQL performing too badly under heavy load - urgent hlp needed

2006-07-27 Thread Brent Baisley
Do a "show status" and check on what mysql is doing. I would start by looking at: threads_created - if this is high, increase your thread_cache_size. This means MySQL is busy creating and destroying threads instead of reusing them. This can take a toll on the OS. Opened_tables - if this number

Re: MySQL performing too badly under heavy load - urgent hlp needed

2006-07-27 Thread rouvas
On Thursday 27 July 2006 17:00, Martin Jespersen wrote: > I doubt apache is to blame. 5 seconds for a query on a website is > extremely slow, so if that is your "normal" results, then you have a > problem there already. I've been building database driven websites for > around 11 years and i don't t

Re: MySQL performing too badly under heavy load - urgent hlp needed

2006-07-27 Thread Miles Thompson
At 09:38 AM 7/27/2006, Ratheesh K J wrote: Hello all, Stuck up with a major problem. Urgent hlp required MySQL seems to be performing too bad during heavy load on the server. Queries which normally take around 5 secs to complete are taking more than 1000 secs to complete during load. What

Re: MySQL performing too badly under heavy load - urgent hlp needed

2006-07-27 Thread Martin Jespersen
I doubt apache is to blame. 5 seconds for a query on a website is extremely slow, so if that is your "normal" results, then you have a problem there already. I've been building database driven websites for around 11 years and i don't think i can remember a single time i went into production wit