Would innodb tables help?
Travis
Daniel Kasak wrote:
> Travis Reeder wrote:
>
>> It seems mostly to be mysql pinned, not the app. like 99% mysql until
>> all data is processed and keeps going up when data coming in is more
>> than can be processed.
>>
>> What could I change in my.cnf to get better performance? I just have
>> a default mysql install (4.0).
>>
>> Travis
>
>
> Faster & more CPUs then.
> If the CPU usage were hovering around, say, 75%, you could assume you
> have an I/O issue that you could solve by upgrading to SCSI.
> But if the CPU is at 99% while MySQL is running a query, upgrading your
> CPU(s) is the only hardware upgrade path.
>
> You should also check, of course, that MySQL has indexes in the right
> fields, and that you're queries are linking on numeric fields ( as
> opposed to character fields ).
> Also, check that you have the query cache enabled. It _really_ speeds
> things up.
>
> And maybe post back with some specs and table defs and queries and the
> output of:
>
> describe <query sql text goes here>
>
