On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:09:01AM -0000, Alexis Guia wrote: > > Hi, > > I think that MyISAM uses the key buffer only if needed. The same happens > with almost all the other buffers (read buffer, sort buffer, etc.).
True, but there's a subtle difference between "uses" and "allocates." If you tell MySQL that it has 16GB for a key_buffer, it'll allocate 16GB even if it only ever uses 28KB. The same is true of several (probably all?) other buffers. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.15-Yahoo-SMP: up 51 days, processed 1,925,645,484 queries (428/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
