Mike,
I re-posted your Show Status to the group to see if anyone can offer a way to speed up the indexing for you.

BTW, you are adding ALL of the indexes to the table using ONE sql statement right? And not a separate SQL statement to build each index?

Mike

At 02:01 AM 6/25/2009, you wrote:

Like I said in the subject line, I am using 5.1.34. I started with my-huge.cnf, which says "key_buffer" rather than "key_buffer_size"; SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES confirms, however, that my key_buffer_size is 8GB.

That indexing operation finally finished after about 1.5 hours; that was about 0.5 hours ago. Now I am on to other things. Here is the status you suggested:

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+-----------------------------------+-----------+

Thanks,
Mike Spreitzer



mos <mo...@fastmail.fm>

06/25/09 02:32 AM
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Re: Indexing dynamics in MySQL Community Edition 5.1.34




At 12:37 AM 6/25/2009, you wrote:
>Actually, my characterization of the current state is wrong.  It appears
>that one core is completely busy, I suppose MySQL does this indexing work
>in a single thread.  Is it reasonable for indexing to be CPU bound?
>
>
>my.cnf based on my-huge.cnf, expanding key_buffer to 8G,
>myisam_sort_buffer_size to 256M, and putting tmpdir on the fiber channel
>disk.

Mike,
    You mean "key_buffer_size" don't you and not "key_buffer"? If you are
using MySQL 5.0 then the upper limit is 4gb but 5.1 allows for more than 4gb.
Also try increasing "sort_buffer_size".

Posting your "Show Status" will help people see where the bottle neck is.

Mike


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