Zach suggested it last week, but it’s only now that I’ve gotten around to setting up MySQL’s slow query log.
It’s easy enough, you’ve just got to put a couple lines like this in your my.cnf (which is in /etc on my server):
log-slow-queries = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
long_query_time = 10
This should get most people running, but this story in Database Journal offers a few more details. Potentially more useful is this guide to query and index optimization (though it’s probably a little out of date).
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Posted February 13, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: high performance mysql, mysql, mysql optimization, performance optimization, query optimization, slow queries, slow query log.
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FYI I could only get this to work for me if I put those lines specifically in the [mysqld] section of the /etc/my.cnf file and also created the directory and touched the file making sure owner and group of the slow log file were mysql/mysql