At 04:41 PM 11/21/2002 -0600, Robert Citek wrote: >So, now I know that "repair with keycache" is slower than "repair by >sorting." What can I do about that? That is, how can I make the repair >use sorting? I would have thought they would be part of the "alter table >..." syntax, but I haven't seen anything obvious.
I just found this from the on-line MySQL manual: "For MyISAM tables, you can speed up the index recreation part (which is the slowest part of the recreation process) by setting the myisam_sort_buffer_size variable to a high value." The current value is ~8M. What would be an appropriate size for a 1GB RAM machine with 2GB swap? Put another way, is there any reason I would not want to set this to 800M or more? Regards, - Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
