I have just upgraded my 12 year old server to a really fast new one. It is a dedicated server, Dell R620 1 x Intel E5-2620 (2.0GHz, 6C) CPU 32GB RAM - 4 x 250GB SSD RAID 1, in short vastly faster in every way to my old server. However I still have a rather slow response whenever I query the MySql database.
Loading up any static is lightning fast. Also when I view my other website (this server hosts two websites) that makes use of Mongodb, it is lighting fast. Currently I'm only using +- 2.5Gb or ram out of the 32Gb. Is there some setting for MySql to allow it to use more resources in order to speed up? Alternatively is there anything else I can do (just dealing with settings or MySql queries) to speed up this slow MySql server?
The MySql version is: 5.1.73. I'm running CentOs
innodb_buffer_pool_size
andkey_buffer_size
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