what can i change in my.cnf/mysqld to get better perfomance

2004-02-17 Thread Lancashire, Pete
I'm doing some tests on a small Sun server, a 280R to demo MySQL vs. Oracle. For the demo I using a subset of a test table. The destination server will be a Sun 880 with 8 1.2 GHz CPU's, 16 GB RAM, Sun T3+ RAID Array. Any suggestions on settings or other changes would be helpful. Also what woul

RE: what can i change in my.cnf/mysqld to get better perfomance

2004-02-17 Thread Lancashire, Pete
by mysqld has so far not gone above 1 GB (both resident, and requested). -pete -Original Message- From: walt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:47 AM To: Lancashire, Pete Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: what can i change in my.cnf/mysqld to get better perf

RE: Creating index on very large table

2004-03-29 Thread Lancashire, Pete
i have a table this is 50 Million, has 10 indexs, some are on varchar's disk space is 34 GB for the MYD, and 6.5 GB for the MYI. Granted I have a pretty old box, 2x660 Mhz P3's, and a RAID array good for about 25-30 MBs, it took me when the DB as at 42 million records about 28 hours to reindex

Update = DEMO TIME: Need best options for source/smp/raid/x86 need to do a demo

2002-12-14 Thread Lancashire, Pete
the RAID arrays were built at RAID-0 90% of the time the db's will be doing only selects, the db's will be updated nightly. -pete Well I opened my big mouth and now have to do a demo of MySQL on an old server that was destined for the dumpster. It has 4 Pentium III, 512 MB of memory (bus unkno

DEMO TIME: Need best options for source/smp/raid/x86 need to do a demo

2002-12-14 Thread Lancashire, Pete
Well I opened my big mouth and now have to do a demo of MySQL on an old server that was destined for the dumpster. It has 4 Pentium III, 512 MB of memory (bus unknown), an HP 3 channel RAID controller (Megatrends?), and 8 SCSI disks in an external array. I've configured the disks to have 4 disks

Thougths on getting MySQL into the enterprise vs MSSQL & Oracle

2001-08-25 Thread Lancashire, Pete
This is kind of an open letter and request for help. Also would apply to our pgSQL friends as well. What would be a major benefit is Guides/FAQs etc on converting from Oracle or MSSQL to MySQL and pgSQL Easy data conversion and export from Oracle & MSSQL to MySQL and pgSQL And so on .. Today

My error or bug ?? 4.0.3 RPM Initial Passwords

2002-09-09 Thread Lancashire, Pete
Hi, Did the usual RPM install, got the usual message [root@us-penguin MYSQL]# rpm -Uvh MySQL-4.0.3-0.i386.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:MySQL #

(anonther) user permission problem

2001-06-21 Thread Lancashire, Pete
Hi fellow mysql'ers Here my "simple" problem I can connect to the mysql server host from any other host, but I cannot from the host with the mysql server. More detail Mysql 3.23.30-gamma (yea I know I need to update it) Example user is foo, password is bar Columns_priv, func, and host are em

RE: (anonther) user permission problem -- hit "send" to fast

2001-06-21 Thread Lancashire, Pete
Forgot to add Can connect from a different host by using both the hostname and FQN, For example the name of the host with the mysql server is sparky. >From sparky -h localhost -h sparky -h [EMAIL PROTECTED] All fail >From another host both sparky and [EMAIL PROTECTED] let me in, and Of cours