Thank you very much for the help. I will schedule the upgrade and see if helps. I have 2 other machines running 2.4.18 without problems, but they also do not run the volume that the problematic machine has and they do not have RAID. Take care.
Richard Gabriel Director of Technology, CoreSense Inc. (518) 306-3043 x3951 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Frequent Table Corruption - Please Help > Richard, > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:53 PM > Subject: Re: Frequent Table Corruption - Please Help > > > > Thanks for the tip. I'll see about upgrading, but it won't be a small > task. > > Any reason why 2.4.18 problems wouldn't have effected MySQL 3.23? I'm > > trying to search for a solution that does not involve upgrading kernels on > > 20 machines that are in production use right now. Thanks again! > > it may be worthwhile to test a new kernel in one of those problematic > computers. > > We believe corruption problems in RH 2.4.18/drivers are random. Then any > small change can provoke them. But we will probably never know what exactly > was wrong in some 2.4.18 computers. > > > Richard Gabriel > > Director of Technology, > > CoreSense Inc. > > (518) 306-3043 x3951 > > Regards, > > Heikki > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:45 PM > > Subject: Re: Frequent Table Corruption - Please Help > > > > > > > Richard, > > > > > > you are running a Red Hat kernel 2.4.18? Kernels 2.4.20 seem to be much > > more > > > reliable. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Heikki Tuuri > > > Innobase Oy > > > http://www.innodb.com > > > Transactions, foreign keys, and a hot backup tool for MySQL > > > Order MySQL technical support from https://order.mysql.com/ > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Richard Gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:52 PM > > > Subject: Frequent Table Corruption - Please Help > > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > Since we upgraded to MySQL 4.0.13 from 3.23, we have been getting > table > > > > corruption often. It happens about twice per week (with about 500 > > > > queries per second average). I have even set up a cron to run > > > > mysqlcheck every hour to try to do some damage control. The biggest > > > > problem is that once the table is corrupted, it seems to be locked. > > > > Well, no clients can read from it. Once repaired, just one record is > > > > usually lost for each time the corruption occurs. I am not sure if > this > > > > is a MySQL bug or even how to reproduce it, but I was hoping that > > > > someone here could help. I have included all the information that I > > > > have about this below. Any insight is greatly appreciated! > > > > > > > > > > > > Here is the mysqlbug information: > > > > > > > > >Release: mysql-4.0.13 (Official MySQL RPM) > > > > > > > > >C compiler: 2.95.3 > > > > >C++ compiler: 2.95.3 > > > > >Environment: > > > > System: Linux *****.com 2.4.18-14smp #1 SMP Wed Sep 4 12:34:47 EDT > 2002 > > > > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > > Architecture: i686 > > > > > > > > Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc > > > > /usr/bin/ccGCC: Reading specs from > > > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/specs > > > > Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man > > > > --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix > > > > --disable-checking --host=i386-redhat-linux --with-system-zlib > > > > --enable-__cxa_atexit > > > > Thread model: posix > > > > gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7) > > > > Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer > > > > -mpentium' CXX='g++' CXXFLAGS='-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer > > > > -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mpentium' LDFLAGS='' > > > > ASFLAGS='' > > > > LIBC: > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 1 2002 /lib/libc.so.6 > > > > -> libc-2.2.93.so > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1235468 Sep 5 2002 > > > > /lib/libc-2.2.93.so > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2233342 Sep 5 2002 > /usr/lib/libc.a > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Sep 5 2002 > /usr/lib/libc.so > > > > Configure command: ./configure '--disable-shared' > > > > '--with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static' > '--with-client-ldflags=-all-static' > > > > '--without-berkeley-db' '--with-innodb' '--without-vio' > > > > '--without-openssl' '--enable-assembler' '--enable-local-infile' > > > > '--with-mysqld-user=mysql' > > > > '--with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--prefix=/' > > > > '--with-extra-charsets=complex' '--exec-prefix=/usr' > > > > '--libexecdir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' > > > > '--localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' > > > > '--includedir=/usr/include' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' > > > > '--with-embedded-server' '--enable-thread-safe-client' > > > > '--with-comment=Official MySQL RPM' > 'CFLAGS=-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer > > > > -mpentium' 'CXXFLAGS=-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer > > > > -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mpentium' > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Other System Information: > > > > The system is running hardware RAID-10 with SCSI drives. It has 4 > Xeon > > > > processors at 2.2GHz each, 2GB RAM. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > MySQL Configuration (my.cnf): > > > > [mysqld] > > > > set-variable = max_connections=1000 > > > > set-variable = delayed_queue_size=100000 > > > > > > > > innodb_data_file_path=ibdata:30M:autoextend:max:2000M > > > > # Set buffer pool size to > > > > # 50 - 80 % of your computer's > > > > # memory > > > > set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=1G > > > > set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=20M > > > > # Set the log file size to about > > > > # 15 % of the buffer pool size > > > > set-variable = innodb_log_file_size=150M > > > > set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=8M > > > > # > > > > > > > > log-bin > > > > server-id=1 > > > > master-host=192.168.1.3 > > > > master-user=repl > > > > master-password=***** > > > > master-port=3306 > > > > > > > > set-variable = query_cache_size=268435456 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Log Entries: > > > > [The first entry is repeated many times. The second is from the > > > > mysqlcheck cron that repairs the tables] > > > > > > > > 030715 0:43:49 read_const: Got error 127 when reading table **** > > > > 030715 2:00:31 Note: Found 23550 of 23551 rows when repairing **** > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks again for your help in advance! > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Richard Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > -- > > > > MySQL General Mailing List > > > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > > > To unsubscribe: > > > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > MySQL General Mailing List > > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > > To unsubscribe: > > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]