Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:42:14 -0400 From: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine? Message-ID: <52ADB97C-BBC8-47F8-AAAB-443CCC8ADA03@vindaloo.com> In-Reply-To: <4870894E.7090708@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <E46D5ADF-51F4-4393-BDEC-79FE02E4A574@identry.com> <4870894E.7090708@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Jul 6, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> John Almberg wrote:
>>
[snip]
> In the second case, it's really just about competition for
> resources. I
> suspect that you could have achieved a pretty good speed-up simply by
> adding another hard drive to your server and moving all of the
> database
> onto it, separate from the web root and any other areas which apache
> would be doing a lot of read/write operations on.
>
When I go back and look at the original top output for the single
machine I note that it's out of RAM. It looks to me like apache and
mysqld were contending over memory.
-- Chris
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Chris Hilton chris-at-vindaloo-dot-com
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