Hi everybody, On Friday 18 May 2007 14:50:55 Brent Baisley wrote: > You may be running into file system file size "limits". You would need to > make sure the file system you are using is set to handle files larger than > 4GB, in addition, you need to check that the account mysqld us running > under is allowed to create files larger than 4GB. Just because the OS and > file system can handle and access large memory/file configurations, it > doesn't mean the user accounts are permitted to.
There are no big databases: sql:~# du -hs /var/lib/mysql 1,4G /var/lib/mysql I am using ext3 as Filesystem and don't get any errors from mysql which say that there might be problems with filesize. Some is more info: After doing 1000 inserts , I get the following: mysql> check table community_msgin; +-------------------------+-------+----------+----------------------------------------------+ | Table | Op | Msg_type | Msg_text | +-------------------------+-------+----------+----------------------------------------------+ | g.community_msgin | check | warning | Table is marked as crashed | | g.community_msgin | check | error | Wrong bytesec: 0-0-0 at linkstart: 416860428 | | g.community_msgin | check | error | Corrupt | +-------------------------+-------+----------+----------------------------------------------+ 3 rows in set (5.80 sec) Then I do a repair: mysql> repair table community_msgin; +-------------------------+--------+----------+--------------------------------------------------+ | Table | Op | Msg_type | Msg_text | +-------------------------+--------+----------+--------------------------------------------------+ | g.community_msgin | repair | info | Wrong bytesec: 0- 0- 0 at 416860428; Skipped | | g.community_msgin | repair | info | Wrong bytesec: 0- 0- 0 at 416960348; Skipped | | g.community_msgin | repair | warning | Number of rows changed from 1143479 to 1143474 | | goolive.community_msgin | repair | status | OK | +-------------------------+--------+----------+--------------------------------------------------+ 4 rows in set (19.36 sec) Then the table is OK until I insert again. Cheers, Christoph > > I'm guessing you are doing a sort on a large dataset and the OS is stopping > you once the sort file reaching the file size limit for the user account. > -- NMMN - New Media Markets & Networks GmbH Geschäftsführung: Kfm. Michael Schütt Finanzamt HH-Altona UStID DE 812 699 852 HRB 71102 Hamburg HypoVereinsbank - BLZ 200 300 00 - Konto-Nr. 156 29 82 http://www.nmmn.com Tel.: +49 40 284 118 -0 Langbehnstrasse 6 Technische Hotline -700 22761 Hamburg Fax: -999 Rufen Sie uns kostenlos an: http://www.nmmn.com/call/technik -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]