Why is access to my database very slow?
- by Fabien
I have a mysql database that used to work perfectly fine, but now it is dead slow on startup. When I type in
$> mysql -u foo bar
I get the following usual message for about 30 seconds before I get a prompt :
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Of course, I tried it and it goes a lot faster :
$> mysql -u foo bar -A
But why do I have to wait so long in regular startup ? This is not a very big database, and data does not seem to be corrupted (everything looks fine after startup). I have no other client connecting to the mysql server at the same time (only one process is shown with the command show full processlist) and I have already restarted the mysqld service.
What's going on ?
