I have build a system using PHP-MySQL. This system is subject to a very heavy load, with thousands of selects,updates,inserts,deletes every minute.
I would like to optimize this system, to make it faster, and reduce load on the servers. I have already introduced memcache, but mysql data is still needed.
So my question is, which method would be the best in this case. Currently my queries would look like this:
$q = mysql_query($sql);
while(mysql_fetch_array($q)) {...
I have read that there is a little speed to gain by using mysql_fetch_assoc (?)
But perhaps there is an antirely different approach, when i start optimizing this system?
Thank you all - (Apologies for my limited english skills)