Hi,
I'm using MySQL 3.23.39 under Red Hat 7.1 on a Pentium III 600mhz with
640MB of Ram. I only 1 table in a database with 5.6 million records and
I'm currently trying to index a varchar(100) field. I started the query
"alter table mytable add index myfield (myfield)" at 10am EST this morning
and 5:45 hours later its still running. If I look in my mysql/var
directory I have the following.
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 8888 Jul 5 09:44 mytable.frm
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 689493112 Jul 5 09:58 mytable.MYD
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 114336768 Jul 5 09:58 mytable.MYI
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 8888 Jul 5 09:59 #sql-312_9.frm
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 616317108 Jul 5 11:21 #sql-312_9.MYD
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 136826880 Jul 5 14:30 #sql-312_9.MYI
The very last file #sql-312_9.MYI has been growing at a rate of about
40-50MB/hour.
Is there any way for me to tell how much longer this will go on? I did a
couple of indexes on two other fields in this table the day
before yesterday but I issued the commands and walked away from the
computer. It was a rough day so i don't remember how long it took. The
other two fields are varchar(5) and varchar(10) and I know for a fact that
it didn't take more then 24 hours, and I'm pretty sure it was less than 6
hours.
Thanks,
Roger Ramirez
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