On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:50, Mark Quitoriano markquitoriano@gmail.com wrote:
Does the mysql in centos compiled with multi processor support? i have a mysql in centos 5 running in a core2duo processor and it seems that it only uses 1 processor.
How many tables are you querying in MySQL?
If you use MyISAM tables (still the default), only one thread can access a table at a time, so you won't get more performance out of SMP to accesses to the same table.
HTH, Filipe