In the last episode (May 30), Michael Villalba said:
> I have a rather large MyISAM table (~230 million rows) running under
> MySQL 3.23.30. It has 10 columns and 3 indices. The data and index
> files each occupy about 10GB.
>
> My problem is that sorting the rows using myisamchk --sort-records
> takes an extremely long time. The last sort took 95 hours (that's
> right...almost four days).
>
> The machine is a four-processor Sun E450 with 4GB of memory. The OS
> is Solaris 2.7. The database files reside on a 12-disk SCSI RAID 5
> array. The machine was essentially idle with the exception of the
> sort job.
Just as a comparison, how long does a "create table newtable select *
from oldtable order by field1" take? Maybe myisamchk's sort is just
really inefficient. I don't know if it works the same way as mysql's
"order by".
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Dan Nelson
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