One thing to remember about *nix, is that disk space is not released until all
processes that had a
file open have closed it. For example, if a process has a 2Gb file open, and
another process rm's
the file, an ls will show that file as gone but the disk space is not released
until the first
process has closed the file. Been bit by this a few times. Could this be the
case here?
Thanks,
Ron.
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Hi Siegfried,
There is a section on each of the log files. I wouldn't go deleting the
log files without understanding exactly what you are trying to do. Have
a read of the section I mentioned. The logfiles that you are showing in
your directory are only 5Mb each and won't be taking anything if you
have > 1Gb free. The files you are showing are for the InnoDB engine and
I can't tell if you are using it. The only databases I can see are
mysql, test and hotjobs. All the other files are well within the usual
sizes that I would expect.
The my.cnf file enables you to customise your installation to ensure
best performance for your application. We use replication a lot here at
work and have custom requirements for the servers so end up doing many
mods from the defaults. I don't use replication at home and so don't
have to modify much at all.
The .cnf files you mentioned are example files. Mysql does not require a
my.cnf file as it makes a number of default assumptions if it is not
there.
The documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html goes
over all the different options that are available within the option
files. There are versions of the manual in other languages at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ HTH
Regards
David Logan
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HP Managed Services
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Adelaide 5000
Australia
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-----Original Message-----
From: Siegfried Heintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 5 August 2005 8:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: How to delete log files? Was: RE: Where did my disk space go?
David (and anyone else):
Here is the directory of my data directory. I don't see hundreds of mega
bytes here, but deleting ib_logfile* and ibdata1 would sure help.
Which of these files I can delete without loosing any data from my
database?
drwxr-xr-x 1 Administrator mkpasswd 0 Jul 30 23:07 hotjobs
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator mkpasswd 25,088 Mar 4 18:05
ib_arch_log_0000000000
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator mkpasswd 5,242,880 Aug 3 17:52 ib_logfile0
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator mkpasswd 5,242,880 Mar 4 18:05 ib_logfile1
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator mkpasswd 10,485,760 May 3 15:47 ibdata1
drwxr-xr-x 1 Administrator mkpasswd 0 Mar 4 18:02 mysql
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator mkpasswd 53,127 Aug 3 17:52 sales.err
drwxr-xr-x 1 Administrator mkpasswd 0 Mar 4 18:02 test
Now what about this my.cnf file? As I recall, this file lives in the top
level directory. I have no such file. I found these files in the mysql
directory:
my-huge.cnf
my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf
my-large.cnf
my-medium.cnf
my-small.cnf
I don't recall editing any of these. Should I be editing them?
Thanks,
Siegfried
-----Original Message-----
From: David Logan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:33 PM
To: Siegfried Heintze
Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: RE: Where did my disk space go?
Hi Siegfried,
In the mysql data directory,
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 358975 Mar 10 14:28 aaudbasa01.log
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 25088 Feb 15 08:08
ib_arch_log_0000000000
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 5242880 Jun 22 11:20 ib_logfile0
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 5242880 Feb 15 08:08 ib_logfile1
The above files maybe in slightly different places, it depends on
whether
you are using the InnoDB engine or the MyISAM one. The InnoDB logging
files are the ib_logfiles. You could also check the my.cnf for any form
of
logging being switched on, in particular binary logging.
You could check for this as well. This will be in your my.cnf file as
# Replication Master Server (default)
# binary logging is required for replication
log_bin
If so, you could be filling up your disk quite easily
Regards
> Thank you David and Sebastion,
> I am not doing this in a transaction (at least, I did not do anything
> special to start a transaction) and I have no need for a transaction.
>
> How do I check the log files you two suggest?
>
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Logan, David (SST - Adelaide) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:10 PM
> To: Siegfried Heintze; mysql@lists.mysql.com
> Subject: RE: Where did my disk space go?
>
> Hi Siegfried,
>
> I would check your transaction logs. Are you doing this as one giant
> transaction? The system may be filling up the logs just in case you
need
> to rollback.
>
> Regards
>
> David Logan
> Database Administrator
> HP Managed Services
> 148 Frome Street,
> Adelaide 5000
> Australia
>
> +61 8 8408 4273 - Work
> +61 417 268 665 - Mobile
> +61 8 8408 4259 - Fax
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Siegfried Heintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:00 AM
> To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
> Subject: Where did my disk space go?
>
> I've been using Perl 8.4+ (ActiveState) on WinXP. My program runs for
> many
> (> 20) hours issuing SQL UPDATE and DELETE commands. The update
commands
> should not be increasing the storage requirements, I'm just updating
> integer
> values.
>
> I've noticed several times now that I run out of disk space. I started
> with
> a gigabyte free. Last time, I aborted the program, compressed my disk,
> retrieved much lost disk space and started again.
>
> Now I tried that again: no luck. I rebooted and recompressed again.
I'm
> still out of disk space.
>
> It seems that MySQL just keeps using more and more disk space.
>
> How can I retrieve my lost disks pace?
>
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
>
>
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