> -----Original Message----- > From: Heikki Tuuri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:58 PM
> crash recovery is usually much faster than purge and merge. > > Killing the mysqld process is a legal (and the fastest :)) way of shutting > down InnoDB. That's good to hear. W2K tells me I don't have permission to kill the process, despite having all admin privileges, so I'll look into that now. Soon, this database will move to Linux or BSD, I hope. > Why did you set fast_shutdown=0? I'm asking myself the same question... ;-) I really don't remember. The last time I changed the config was when I started using Innodb, four or five months ago. Don't know what the heck I was thinking. > By the way, I am not sure the setting really affects the variable value at > all, since in versions < 4.0.15 there was a bug that it was specified as a > NO_ARG parameter. I noticed some of your other messages about that. It's probably time for me to update. Thanks very much. I really appreciate the speed with which you respond (not just to my messages, I read the list regularly). Nick -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]