>>You haven't physically looked at and compared the logs, have you
Actually that was the first thing I did. The mysqlbinlog rendered text was roughly the same but the binary files much bigger. It's probably something obscure and specific to my implementation and not something that the group has experienced by the looks of it. Thanks for the help anyway. Cheers, Andrew ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:32 To: Andrew Braithwaite Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Resend: 4.1 replication logs growing at a much greater rate than with 4.0 "Andrew Braithwaite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/04/2005 05:39:59 AM: > Hi all, > > I have just upgraded a master slave database system from 4.0 to 4.1. > the replication binlogs are now growing at a vastly greater rate. The > queries going through are the same. Did 4.0 use some kind of > compression by default or something? > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on with this? Any other pointers > will be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Andrew > > Sql, query > You haven't physically looked at and compared the logs, have you >:-{ If you had, you could have answered yourself. You will see that v4.1 binlogs more things than 4.0. More log entries = bigger files. Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine