I'm answering myself because I found a solution to my problem, and I wanted to share the results with the list, in case someone is struggling to try to do the same thing... The problem with mysql (go easy, we're not talking about the fact that mysql is primitive and overall does not match up to the known transactional rdbms) is that it does not provide any sql statement profiling or timing statistics. If you use the mysql client to check a query, you can see a time. You can even write a perl script utilizing the benchmark module that comes with mysql to get more sql timings. However, neither of these methods work with Zope (i.e. do you really feel like interfacing to perl from Zope, and then calling the benchmark module for EVERY one of your queries?). A more "automated" approach is desirable, that compares to Oracle's profiling that logs ALL queries to a file with timing statistics. I finally decided after searching for a few hours for information, that I would modify Zope to handle this for me. The logical place was to put it in ZMySQLDA. I'm attaching a patch of a really _simple_ logging mechanism. The only activity that really occurs is the time is noted before and after the query gets processed and fetched, and the difference is noted. Finally, it gets logged to /tmp/mysql_timing.log --- You need to turn off MYSQL_TIMING in db.py of ZMySQL after applying the patch should you not want the timing to occur any longer. And as usual, a Zope restart is required after patching your ZMySQLDA. The patch was written for ZMySQLDA 1.2.0 (nothing below). Knight knight@phunc.com On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, knight wrote:

Greetings,

I have a lot of past experience with tuning and timing on Oracle (quite simple), but I seem to have hit a hurdle with timing my sql statements in MySQL. Getting these timings are _incredibly_ important to finding bottlenecks in a web site's performance...

Now, first, is it possible to turn on profiling for ZSQL methods? I've turned on my Zope's profiling, and I can see statistics on how many times sqlvar was called, but not specific zsql methods. Second, anyone familiar with any mysql settings that will dump a log displaying real-time sql executions and the corresponding execute time?

I like to turn sql timing on, then run around the site for a while, send some people to test it out, or throw up a http load tester script up, and then check the timing logs to see how things worked out.

Regards,

Knight knight@phunc.com

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