> Is there any message in the log files? or any error > message from the OS?
David - When the mysqld process restarts, there is nothing in the logfile except the basic startup info. I have listed it below:0:33). 051116 10:06:33 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.0.15-standard' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL) Number of processes running now: 0 051116 20:33:05 mysqld restarted 051116 20:33:05 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43665 051116 20:33:05 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.0.15-standard' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL) As you can see from the log I am running 5.0.15. I installed using the provided RPMs on a RH ES3 box. Below is the tablestatus. mysql> show table status like 'trade' \G *************************** 1. row *************************** Name: trade Engine: ARCHIVE Version: 10 Row_format: Compressed Rows: 0 Avg_row_length: 4137 Data_length: 2147483647 Max_data_length: 0 Index_length: 0 Data_free: 0 Auto_increment: NULL Create_time: 2005-11-16 20:33:05 Update_time: 2005-11-16 20:33:05 Check_time: NULL Collation: latin1_swedish_ci Checksum: NULL Create_options: max_rows=4294967295 avg_row_length=4137 Comment: 1 row in set (0.01 sec) Thanks for any assistance you can give. I am also looking at alternative solutions in which I use multiple ARCHIVE dbs with each being < 2 gb. Marc -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]