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Originally Posted by borked
This is such a fallacy - I have around 14 million mysql db hits and ~1million of those are on very complex joins involving very non-ordinary indexes. Not even taking into account the load added by apache for all those hits, my server load averages only 0.05. And I can back that up with stats to anyone who wants a private argument off the board over email...
What the problem is often frequently craply designed databases. Anyone saying mysql is a hog should run something like mysqltuner on their server and see if all green lights come up. Mine do, and my most used db is 6.5GB in size, and yet mysql is only set to use 4GB of RAM.
phooey.
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My fav part:
"What the problem is often frequently craply designed databases. Anyone saying mysql is a hog should run something like mysqltuner on their server and see if all green lights come up. Mine do, and my most used db is 6.5GB in size, and yet mysql is only set to use 4GB of RAM."
Well said, & well done!
