Re^9: Enhancing Speed (mysql)

Lisa. They're numbers. They're on the internet. You lose.

Yes, quite a while after we had identified a serious problem with our instance of MySQL, "the internet" noticed a problem with MySQL on FreeBSD. The two problems seemed related but not identical.

Since then, the internet solved their problem. And pair.com has upgraded FreeBSD and MySQL several times and even tried to build PerlMonks a custom version of MySQL using suggestions from the internet. The custom version of MySQL never worked well enough to even deploy.

PerlMonks' problem with MySQL that started when we switched to FreeBSD has not gone away. Actually we have two serious problems with MySQL. Perhaps if I show your benchmarks to our instance of MySQL our problems will go away.

- tye

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Re^10: Enhancing Speed (heh) by tye (Sage) on Aug 19, 2010 at 15:33 UTC
Okay, I realized that node might be easy to interpret as rather harsh. It wasn't written harshly. It was written with a chuckle. For those who haven't noticed, I'm easily amused. Another thing I find amusing about this thread is how many different people have jumped in to thrash ahmad and how many of the thrashings are either off-target or petty. Granted, I think ahmad deserves a great deal of "credit" for motivating this response. But I also want to make clear to ahmad that I, for one, am not overlooking the places where ahmad has made good points. It also looks like ahmad might be somewhat defensive at this point. That is completely expected given the thrashings. But it might be better if the many participants (and don't get me wrong, I find the level of participation refreshing for this subject) would not restrict themselves to trying to get ahmad to change attitude via thrashings. Keeping an open mind and acknowledging the good points might reduce the defensiveness and this might facilitate an attitude change. And it might be better for ahmad to acknowledge the repeated point of many of the thrashings and try to research the particulars of this site and its performance problems. Granted, it isn't trivial to research such. But I, for one, have certainly written several nodes about such. Also, try to present suggestions in a manner that acknowledges that a solution working for somebody else on the internet doesn't mean it must work here too. - tye	[reply]

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Re^10: Enhancing Speed (heh)
by tye (Sage) on Aug 19, 2010 at 15:33 UTC

Okay, I realized that node might be easy to interpret as rather harsh. It wasn't written harshly. It was written with a chuckle.

For those who haven't noticed, I'm easily amused. Another thing I find amusing about this thread is how many different people have jumped in to thrash ahmad and how many of the thrashings are either off-target or petty. Granted, I think ahmad deserves a great deal of "credit" for motivating this response.

But I also want to make clear to ahmad that I, for one, am not overlooking the places where ahmad has made good points.

It also looks like ahmad might be somewhat defensive at this point. That is completely expected given the thrashings.

But it might be better if the many participants (and don't get me wrong, I find the level of participation refreshing for this subject) would not restrict themselves to trying to get ahmad to change attitude via thrashings. Keeping an open mind and acknowledging the good points might reduce the defensiveness and this might facilitate an attitude change.

And it might be better for ahmad to acknowledge the repeated point of many of the thrashings and try to research the particulars of this site and its performance problems. Granted, it isn't trivial to research such. But I, for one, have certainly written several nodes about such. Also, try to present suggestions in a manner that acknowledges that a solution working for somebody else on the internet doesn't mean it must work here too.

- tye

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