Thanks a lot for this explanation, yeah we are doing many massive update and insert in our databases.
-- Thomas Raso 2007/10/30, Augusto Bott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > One possible explanation (possibly not the only one): if you do a > massive update on the master, that transaction would need to create > many blocks of versioned data. If you roll that transaction back, > those blocks will be freed to be reused, but the datafiles won't > shrink. > > Since that transaction wasn't commited, it won't be written to the > binary log, so it won't be executed and rolled back on the slave > (that's only true when all tables involved on a transaction are > transaction-safe tables). > > -- > Augusto Bott > > > > On 10/30/07, Thomas Raso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > on a replication architecture, with the same server, the same Mysql > version > > (4.1.21) and the same configuration, the same database. > > > > I have a difference between two ibdata file size > > > > > innodb_data_file_path=ibdata1:2000M;ibdata2:2000M;ibdata3:2000M;ibdata4:2000M;ibdata5:2000M;ibdata6:2000M;ibdata7:500M:autoextend > > > > on the master : > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:40 ibdata1 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:39 ibdata2 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:39 ibdata3 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:39 ibdata4 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:39 ibdata5 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:36 ibdata6 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 22G Oct 30 11:40 ibdata7 > > > > on the slave > > > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:40 ibdata1 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:40 ibdata2 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:40 ibdata3 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:40 ibdata4 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:40 ibdata5 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2.0G Oct 30 11:40 ibdata6 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 15G Oct 30 11:40 ibdata7 > > > > The difference is over 7Go !!! > > > > Is there anybody who has got any explanation about this ??? > > > > Thanks all > > >