Table locking and other tables

[ASTRAPI]

Hello

Does a table locking affect the other tables in general?

I mean when a table is lock does mysq serv the rest of the users that are not asking something from that table?

Thank you

[Gary.]

Table locking is not as bad as it sounds, People can still use / write / read on those tables.
Putting on low-priority-updates in the my.cnf will help the issue alot.

Locked tables can increase speeds on the other tables to read/write, This is not a major issue as I see it, See if you had a BIG table you can also chage this to use BDB just for that one table.