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

[Jeff Eaton]

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 at webschuur.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:10 PM
> To: development at 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