Read bursts on datadir

2004-01-28 Thread Trevor Price
Mysqlians, Greetings We have been experiencing a performance problem that relates to either mysql's buffers of the ext3 file cache. Our mysql servers are experiencing load spikes due to massive disk reads on datadir( > 3meg sec). Datadir is a seprate disk. Most of the day the disk

Low_Priority Updates

2004-03-11 Thread Trevor Price
Mysqlians, Does a low_priority behave like a DELAYED for insert and return to the caller before the update has actually been executed? If not are their plans for a DELAYED option with update? Regards, Trevor -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql

Maintaining fulltext

2004-03-18 Thread Trevor Price
Mysqlians, 1. How can I tell how many words a fulltext index has indexed?(for purposes of estimating performance) 2. How can I tell how much index file space a full text is responsible for? ( for regular indicies I use (key_length +4)/.067 ) but my fulltext's are all on text's. Thanks, Tr

Re: avoiding "Locked" threads

2004-05-14 Thread Trevor Price
Jon, an update statement is supposed to return the # of rows updated, so the client must wait for a response, which means the client will wait if you low_priority your updates. But if they are insert delayed then the client gets a return immediately. This behavior limits the usefullness of low

Fully compliant GIS

2004-05-18 Thread Trevor Price
Mysql AB, What is the roadmap for fully compliant GIS? " The OpenGIS specification defines the following functions, which MySQL does not yet implement. They should appear in future releases. When implemented, they will provide full support for spatial analysis, not just MBR-based support." Tha

Re: MySQL and NPTL

2004-05-18 Thread Trevor Price
Steve, I have had this same problem exept the entire server does not hang, only one thread which experiences a signficiat slowdown. This happens a couple times a week for our 4 servers. I believe this is a thread scheduling issue. The mysql support team suggests against using NPTL. However, I u

Change ft_min_word_len require fulltext index rebuild

2004-05-18 Thread Trevor Price
Mysqlians, I just discovered that a server has ft_min_word_len=4 when I want ft_min_word_len=3 . Do I have to rebuild all the fulltext indicies so that searches on three-letter words will work correctly? Trevor -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql