i'm using mysql 4.0.16 on a gentoo 1.4 box with a gentoo-patched 2.4.23 kernel, 1.3GHz Athlon, 512MB RAM and 20GB HD space (old hd).
i boot up to commandline, login, and top shows 440MB+ of RAM free. i launch an app i've written which begins by hitting mysql with a query against a table of ~2M...