From: The Urchin Date: January 1 1998 6:46am Subject: MYSQL TOP List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/500 Message-Id: <002001bd1680$fd927220$0501a8c0@Phil.clickagents.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001D_01BD1680.FCD9D080" ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01BD1680.FCD9D080 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Thomas/Anyone, I wonder if you could please find some time to help with this quick = query... I have a database which has a large number of conections, and uses lots = of SELECT,UPDATE,DELETE statements. The server has a large amount of = memory 512Mb.... I've included the setup variables below, and output from mysqladmin = STATUS.... The problem is that the load goes between 10 and 30 in a day, and slows = all the system right down. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Many thanks +--------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +--------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | back_log | 50 | | basedir | /export/home/mysql/ | | datadir | . | | join_buffer | 4190208 | | key_buffer | 25161728 | | language | /export/home/mysql/share/mysql/english/ | | max_allowed_packet | 65536 | | max_connections | 500 | | max_join_size | 4294967295 | | max_sort_length | 1024 | | net_buffer_length | 8192 | | port | 3306 | | record_buffer | 131072 | | skip_locking | 1 | | socket | /tmp/mysql.sock | | sort_buffer | 2097144 | | table_cache | 512 | | thread_stack | 65536 | | tmp_table_size | 1048576 | +--------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Uptime: 305 Running threads: 125 Questions: 140878 Opened_tables: 358 = Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 358 ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01BD1680.FCD9D080--