From: Rick James
Date: August 29 2012 4:00pm
Subject: RE: qcache settings and block meaning
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> It hasn't been purged resultly ('recently'?) AFAIK.
Purging happens automatically -- Whenever ANY change is made to a table, AL=
L entries in the QC for that table are purged.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: raphinou@stripped [mailto:raphinou@stripped] On Behalf Of
> Raphael Bauduin
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 2:16 AM
> To: Rick James
> Cc: mysql@stripped
> Subject: Re: qcache settings and block meaning
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> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Rick James <rjames@stripped>
> wrote:
> >> | Qcache_hits                       | 56418967     |
> >> | Qcache_inserts                    | 48601636     |
> > That's a low hit rate.  Perhaps you should simply turn off the Query
> cache?
> >
> >> | Qcache_free_memory                | 46945512     |
> > That's a big fraction of the total.  Either the QC is unnecessarily
> big, or it was recently purged.
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> It hasn't been purged resultly AFAIK.
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> >
> >> | Qcache_lowmem_prunes              | 21948806     |
> > What is Uptime?  This may be a lot of prunes per second.
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> Uptime is 65days, resulting in a little less than 4 per second.
> >
> > Purging stuff out of 128MB _may_ slow your system down more than the
> benefit you are getting.
> > I recommend turning off the QC for systems with constant write
> activity.
> > Otherwise, 50M is a reasonable max.
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> Thanks for your feedback. These question were going to be the topic of
> my next mail to the list, but you anticipated correctly :-)
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> Raph
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> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: raphinou@stripped [mailto:raphinou@stripped] On Behalf Of
> >> Raphael Bauduin
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:12 AM
> >> To: mysql@stripped
> >> Subject: qcache settings and block meaning
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a mysql server running with the query cache size being 128M
> >> (134217728 bytes).
> >>
> >> Here are the qcache variables values:
> >>
> >> | Qcache_free_blocks                | 13758        |
> >> | Qcache_free_memory                | 46945512     |
> >> | Qcache_hits                       | 56418967     |
> >> | Qcache_inserts                    | 48601636     |
> >> | Qcache_lowmem_prunes              | 21948806     |
> >> | Qcache_not_cached                 | 39066097     |
> >> | Qcache_queries_in_cache           | 44858        |
> >> | Qcache_total_blocks               | 104668
> >>
> >> And the query_cache_min_res_unit is 4096 .
> >>
> >> I'm not sure what the meaning of a block is. For the query cache
> size
> >> and the number of total blocks, I have a block size of
> >> 134217728/104668 =3D 1282.3186 , which is a strange number for a block
> >> size. Am I wrong somewhere?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Raph
> >>
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