Re: Speed of MySQL connections - Socket vs. Non-Socket
| From: | Brian Clark | Date: | Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:17:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Speed of MySQL connections - Socket vs. Non-Socket | ||
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Hi Alexander,
@ 6:55:58 PM on 4/16/2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:
...
> In a mysql_connect() it is possible to specify a path to the socket
> which should be used for communicating with MySQL.
Yes, it's in the documentation.
int mysql_connect ([string hostname [:port] [:/path/to/socket]
[, string username [, string password]]])
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php
> Now, when I connect thru a socket, is the datatransfer between PHP
> and MySQL faster than when I connect via a (loop-)network? I would
> assume so, because with a socket, there's not the network layer in
> the way which has to be taken care of.
> Is this correct?
No earthly idea.
-Brian
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