On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Jean-Pierre Georgin wrote: > I saw in the MySQL documentation that the myISAM tables maximal size was 8 > millions TB. But I couldn't find any information about the maximum number of > tables it can support. Can you give me this information ?
Bonjour Jean-Pierre, each MyISAM table consists of 3 files: *.MYD *.MYI and *.frm So the question is: how many files are supported by your OS? ext2 gets somewhat slow when you exceed 5'000-10'000 tables. I would not try to create millions of them. For a large number of tables I recommend ReiserFS. Thomas Spahni -- sql, query --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
