Am 04.02.2014 10:01, schrieb Jean Weisbuch:
> Using a tmpfs directory as the tmpdir has its interest

especially if it leads to swap or is not large enough for
a temp-table for a random operation leading to errors

keep in mind that innodb_buffer_pool and other processes
are fighting for the same RAM

> changing it only because of warnings issued for temporaries
> InnoDB tables doesn't seems to be a "solution"

it's the solution for exactly the mentioned problem
the other one is not using O_DIRECT
O_DIRECT don't work on tmpfs by definition

> On 03/02/2014 19:09, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 03.02.2014 18:08, schrieb ImperialNetwork:
>>> I started to notice this on my error log since i upgraded from 5.5.34 to 
>>> 5.5.35:
>>>
>>> 140203  5:26:25  InnoDB: Failed to set O_DIRECT on file 
>>> /dev/shm/#sql7e8f6_1a94bc_10.ibd: CREATE: Invalid argument,
>>> continuing anyway
>>> 140203  5:26:25  InnoDB: O_DIRECT is known to result in 'Invalid argument' 
>>> on Linux on tmpfs, see MySQL Bug#26662
>>>
>>> I never seen this error/warning until 5.5.35. Should this be normal?
>>
>> output of /usr/bin/df -hT would be a good idea
>>
>> if you heave /tmp as tmpfs like more and more linux distributions
>> set "tmpdir" in my.cnf somewhere else, O_DIRECT can not work on
>> tmpfs by definition and that there was before no warning don't
>> mean that it ever worked before
>>
>> there where many warnings in the past 6 months about config options
>> which are deprecated or not work as someone may think
>>
>> the difference is "works not" silent or not silent in most cases

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