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Re: How do the enterprise web applications do it?
Posted by: James Day
Date: January 31, 2005 07:06PM

First step is to cover the things you have probably already done:

Are you using a my.cnf file to tall MySQL to use your RAM? Without one it's not going to perform very well because it's unlikely to keep much of the index in RAM and that's crucial for performance.

Are you warming the cache first? Initial loading of index nodes from disk is slow but once they are in RAM performance can be substantially faster. It can take many minutes to many hours to fully load/warm a cache, depending on the nature of the queries, the RAM involved and whether you're telling the server to load the index into RAM.

Have you used ANALYZE TABLE to update the query optimizer statistics? If you haven't it might incorrectly think that a full table scan is best.

Beyond that, providing specific example queries which work badly for you, and the results of EXPLAIN SELECT for them, are the way to go.

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