On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 04:33:41PM +0200, andy wrote:
> Thank you Egor for you reply.
> 
> I did read about indexing text column on the mysql site. So I tryed
> to index my column like described. After 1 hour, I had to reboot my
> machine because there was no other way.

No other way?

You could have killed MySQL.

> All the cpu was bussy and it seemed to me to be an endless loop.

I doubt that it was endless.

> After rebooting I had to repair the file system (suse72) and
> tables. There was also a 130 MB tmp file I deleted.
> 
> So what did I do wrong, or does it just take that long? The table
> contains about 40 MB of space.

How much data are you attempting to index, and how large is your
key_buffer?

Jeremy
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