On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Michael Widenius wrote:

> >>>>> "mmokrejs" == mmokrejs  <iso-8859-2> writes:
> 
> mmokrejs> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Michael Widenius wrote:
> mmokrejs> Hi,
> mmokrejs>   yes this patch *fixes* all of my problems, except one table which is/was
> mmokrejs> probably too big? I haven't found any options that would make myisamchk to
> mmokrejs> ask for less memory.
> 
> 
> mmokrejs> /usr/local/mysql/bin/myisamchk: Out of memory (Needed 4294922813 bytes)
> mmokrejs> /usr/local/mysql/bin/myisamchk: error: 12 when opening MyISAM-table 
>'/data/mysql/Celegans/rep.MYI'
> mmokrejs> /usr/local/mysql/bin/myisamchk: Out of memory (Needed 4294922813 bytes)
> mmokrejs> /usr/local/mysql/bin/myisamchk: error: 12 when opening MyISAM-table 
>'/data/mysql/Celegans/rep.MYI'
> 
> No tables should ever be too big for myisamchk.
> What options did you use with myisamchk ?

/usr/local/mysql/bin/myisamchk -f -d /data/mysql/$db/$table.MYI

But even /usr/local/mysql/bin/myisamchk /data/mysql/$db/$table.MYI or with
only -S or only -a. Just "everything sensible".

> mmokrejs>  Well, the other rep tables are fine. I'm a bit angry about myself,
> mmokrejs> because I dropped the Celegans.rep tables:!!!
> 
> :(

Well, intentionally. :(

> mmokrejs> I managed successfully to run "myisamchk -rq" on it, myisampack and again
> mmokrejs> "myisamchk -rq". So now I can only tell you that broken datafile can cause
> mmokrejs> myisamchk to ask for too much memory. :(
> 
> As you can guess, this doesn't help me to find out where the problem
> is :(

I know.

> mmokrejs>   So unfortunately, I don't have the "broken" table anymore, only the
> mmokrejs> screen dumps (size od .MYD and .MYI differed). It seems the
> mmokrejs> "broken" datafile had 6 bytes more, "broken" index was much smaller.
> mmokrejs> That's all I can tell you. ;)
> mmokrejs> Maybe it helps.
> 
> Unfortunately this doesn't help me to solve this.
> 
> If you ever get this problem again, save the tables so that we can
> repeat it and fix the problem!

Sure! Thanks.
-- 
Martin Mokrejs - PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs
MIPS / Institute for Bioinformatics <http://mips.gsf.de>
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