</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">I'll work with my hosting company to figure out how to stop and restart mysql, unless you have any idea where I might be able to find it.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql should work <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" /> . Which Linux (Red Hat, SuSE etc.) is installed on the server?

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">set-variable = max_connections=1500
set-variable = table_cache=2038
set-variable = thread_cache_size=50

set-variable = key_buffer=256M
set-variable = join_buffer=1M
set-variable = record_buffer=1M
set-variable = sort_buffer=1M</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">key_buffer=256M is way to high and join/record/sort_buffer=1 is to low for a 1GB server.

You should try the configuration that I posted before:

[mysqld]
port = 3306
socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-locking
set-variable = max_connections=400
set-variable = key_buffer=20M
set-variable = join_buffer=7M
set-variable = record_buffer=7M
set-variable = sort_buffer=10M
set-variable = table_cache=1024
set-variable = thread_cache_size=256

[myisamchk]
set-variable = key_buffer=512M
set-variable = sort_buffer=512M
set-variable = read_buffer=16M
set-variable = write_buffer=16M