VVM Ravikumar Sarma Chengalvala wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 1.
> How much memory does mysql allocate by default to a
> database?Any default table wise memory limitations as
> well?
Its doesn't allocated very much by default ( < 10M ? ),
and there is no per table memory allocation.
> 2.
> Is mysql's memory management and Oracle's memory
> management similar?Or altogeather different?
>
They both have things like key buffers & sort buffers
that you can explicitly size, but MySQL doesn't have a
db_block_buffer kind of thing that Oracle has. Rather,
it lets your OS cache the data file, which works very
well in Linux & just fine on WinNT.
--Josh
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