Slow MySQL

[DoobyWho]

One of my users has a 500mb table in MySQL and for some reason whenever the user runs a query via PHP on another table (say one with 20 records, each simple text so table size is a few kb) the whole server gets bogged down.

Any ideas? When its run via SSH, the query goes fast. However via PHP it's really slow. Either using PHPMyAdmin or my script.

Here is my my.cnf
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[mysqld]
safe-show-database
innodb_data_file_path=ibdata1:10M:autoextend
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
max_allowed_packet=1000M;

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
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Here are my mysql variables using 'show variables'
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back_log 50
basedir /usr/
binlog_cache_size 32768
bulk_insert_buffer_size 8388608
character_set_client latin1
character_set_connection latin1
character_set_database latin1
character_set_results latin1
character_set_server latin1
character_set_system utf8
character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/
collation_connection latin1_swedish_ci
collation_database latin1_swedish_ci
collation_server latin1_swedish_ci
concurrent_insert ON
connect_timeout 5
datadir /var/lib/mysql/
date_format %Y-%m-%d
datetime_format %Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s
default_week_format 0
delay_key_write ON
delayed_insert_limit 100
delayed_insert_timeout 300
delayed_queue_size 1000
expire_logs_days 0
flush OFF
flush_time 0
ft_boolean_syntax + -><()~*:""&
ft_max_word_len 84
ft_min_word_len 4
ft_query_expansion_limit 20
ft_stopword_file (built-in)
group_concat_max_len 1024
have_archiveNO
have_bdb NO
have_blackhole_engine NO
have_compress YES
have_crypt YES
have_csv NO
have_example_engine NO
have_geometry YES
have_innodb YES
have_isam NO
have_ndbcluster NO
have_opensslNO
have_query_cache YES
have_raid NO
have_rtree_keys YES
have_symlinkYES
init_connect
init_file
init_slave
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size 1048576
innodb_autoextend_increment 8
innodb_buffer_pool_awe_mem_mb 0
innodb_buffer_pool_size 8388608
innodb_data_file_path ibdata1:10M:autoextend
innodb_data_home_dir
innodb_fast_shutdown ON
innodb_file_io_threads 4
innodb_file_per_table OFF
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit 1
innodb_flush_method
innodb_force_recovery 0
innodb_lock_wait_timeout 50
innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog OFF
innodb_log_arch_dir
innodb_log_archive OFF
innodb_log_buffer_size 1048576
innodb_log_file_size 5242880
innodb_log_files_in_group 2
innodb_log_group_home_dir ./
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct 90
innodb_max_purge_lag 0
innodb_mirrored_log_groups 1
innodb_open_files 300
innodb_table_locks ON
innodb_thread_concurrency 8
interactive_timeout 28800
join_buffer_size 131072
key_buffer_size 8388600
key_cache_age_threshold 300
key_cache_block_size 1024
key_cache_division_limit 100
language /usr/share/mysql/english/
large_files_support ON
license GPL
local_infileON
locked_in_memory OFF
log OFF
log_bin OFF
log_error
log_slave_updates OFF
log_slow_queries OFF
log_update OFF
log_warnings1
long_query_time 10
low_priority_updates OFF
lower_case_file_system OFF
lower_case_table_names 0
max_allowed_packet 1048574976
max_binlog_cache_size 4294967295
max_binlog_size 1073741824
max_connect_errors 10
max_connections 100
max_delayed_threads 20
max_error_count 64
max_heap_table_size 16777216
max_insert_delayed_threads 20
max_join_size 4294967295
max_length_for_sort_data 1024
max_relay_log_size 0
max_seeks_for_key 4294967295
max_sort_length 1024
max_tmp_tables 32
max_user_connections 0
max_write_lock_count 4294967295
myisam_data_pointer_size 4
myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size 2147483648
myisam_max_sort_file_size 2147483647
myisam_recover_options OFF
myisam_repair_threads 1
myisam_sort_buffer_size 8388608
net_buffer_length 16384
net_read_timeout 30
net_retry_count 10
net_write_timeout 60
new OFF
old_passwords OFF
open_files_limit 1024
pid_file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
port 3306
preload_buffer_size 32768
protocol_version 10
query_alloc_block_size 8192
query_cache_limit 1048576
query_cache_min_res_unit 4096
query_cache_size 0
query_cache_type ON
query_cache_wlock_invalidate OFF
query_prealloc_size 8192
range_alloc_block_size 2048
read_buffer_size 131072
read_only OFF
read_rnd_buffer_size 262144
relay_log_purge ON
relay_log_space_limit 0
rpl_recovery_rank 0
secure_auth OFF
server_id 0
skip_external_locking ON
skip_networking OFF
skip_show_database OFF
slave_net_timeout 3600
slave_transaction_retries 0
slow_launch_time 2
socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
sort_buffer_size 2097144
sql_mode
storage_engine MyISAM
sql_notes ON
sql_warningsON
sync_binlog 0
sync_replication 0
sync_replication_slave_id 0
sync_replication_timeout 0
sync_frm ON
system_time_zone CDT
table_cache 64
table_type MyISAM
thread_cache_size 0
thread_stack 196608
time_format %H:%i:%s
time_zone SYSTEM
tmp_table_size 33554432
tmpdir
transaction_alloc_block_size 8192
transaction_prealloc_size 4096
tx_isolation REPEATABLE-READ
version 4.1.14
version_comment Source distribution
version_compile_machine i686
version_compile_os redhat-linux-gnu
wait_timeout28800
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I have 1GB ram and users are uploading large files to MySQL, anywhere from 5mb to a couple hundred (only now and then).

 

[DoobyWho]

nevermind- i fixed it. you can delete this

It was a runaway query i found by using the slow query option.