RE: [development] Counterintuitive but true: Caching makes ahigh-traffic site slower

I've wondered this, too. A friend of mine (mysql admin for a very, very high-traffic site) was looking over a blog entry I made about some drupal-stuff, and his first words were, 'Dear God, don't use myisam!' I assume there's a good reason for it, but the drawbacks for high-load sites seem considerable. --Jeff

-----Original Message----- From: Bèr Kessels [mailto:ber@webschuur.com] Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:10 PM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Counterintuitive but true: Caching makes ahigh-traffic site slower

I am a sql-clueless person. So can someone explain me why the --- we have myisam there, if it performs so bad?

Ber