Hi! We have only 2 GB of RAM in our SuSE Linux server, and I can allocate 1400 MB to the buffer pool.
Have you checked what ulimit -a says for the user running mysqld? Best regards, Heikki Tuuri Innobase Oy http://www.innodb.com Foreign keys, transactions, and row level locking for MySQL InnoDB Hot Backup - a hot backup tool for MySQL Order MySQL technical support from https://order.mysql.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: ""Misaochankun"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:01 AM Subject: InnoDB can't use system's RAM as specified > I am coming across an annoying problem with a new InnoDB installation. > On a 4Gig RAM box, Mysql doesn't seem to want to grab the RAM I am > telling it to take. > I would like for it to try and use around 3 Gigs for its > innodb_buffer_pool_size, but it refuses to startup with anything greater > than 512M. I bugged RedHat about it, and they had me change the shared > memory allowance to 3Gigs, but nothing changed. I'd really like to get > the pool size up so that the server doesn't have to go to disk so often. > I will admit to being an InnoDB newbie, I am reading everything I can > find though and have used the example my.cnf files to tweak it pretty > decently. This memory issue is all that is really bugging me at the > moment. > > System Specs: > RedHat Enterprise ES 2.1 2.4.9-e27smp > MySQL 4.0.14 > Compaq/HP Proliant 300 Series > Xeon Dual 2.8Ghz Pent4 > 4Gigs RAM > 2 72Gig Scsi 320 drives Raid 1+0 > > I can't think of anything else that would prove helpful, but feel free > to ask. Thanks in advance for any help. > > > -- > 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]
