From: Rick James Date: February 27 2012 6:03pm Subject: Re: memcache vs.query_cache List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/38463 Message-Id: <4F4BC577.2070400@yahoo-inc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would focus on improving the performance of the queries that need tmp tables. Would you like to show us some (together with SHOW CREATE TABLE and SHOW TABLE STATUS and EXPLAIN)? On 2/24/12 3:36 AM, Michael Widenius wrote: > Revathi> Can anyone please let me know what would be the explanation for the above? > Revathi> Should I bring down values of tmp_table_size and max_heap_table_size? > -- Rick James - MySQL Geek