In the last episode (Oct 07), Jon Shoberg said:
> I have a small PHP website that gets a fair amount of traffic. It's
> a simple layout with two tables. I average about 50 concurrently open
> apache sessions and 40 open mysql connections. I am calling for
> persistent connections from the mySQL/PHP API.
>
> But here is the kicker. Each mySQL thread takes about 41mb!! :( Can
> anyone point me to resources on optimizing mySQL's memory usage under
> a moderate/heavy load?
Threads have no memory. You're getting misled by Linuxes threads
implementation, which displays each thread as if it were a separate
process. They actually share the same block of memory, which is why
they're threads and not processes.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@stripped
