Each time it fails, I've successfully run the repair table command.
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 14:38:34 GMT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you run a check/analyze on the table in question? The table will > need to be repaired before you proceed. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 2/4/04, 11:11:12 PM, Devios McShady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding > index failing on large database - any ideas why?: > > > > I have a database with one 17GB table containing about 23 million > customer records. > > > The table has about 15 fields. I wanna index five of them to speed up > searching. > > > My indexing operation keeps failing with error:127 (record table has > crashed). > > > The process fails of different fields at different times; there is no > consistencey in when the error occurs... I've tried this process on three > seperate systems and had the same results. > > > The last server was a Dual 3GHz Zeon with 6GB Ram and a 15K RPM SCSI RAID > array on an LSI RAID Card running RedHat. The server prior to that was a > Dual AMD Opteron with 4GB Ram running Windows 200 Server. The server prior > to that was a single AMD Thunderbird 1GHz with 2GB Ram running Windows 2000 > Pro. All the systems are getting the same error. > > > Can anyone speculate as to what might be going on? Are there some things > I should check, such as for certail characters that indexing can't handle > within the table data? Are there some mysqld parameters I need to set when > working with this much data? Are there compilation flags I should have > set? > > > I appreciate any help anyone may be able to provide. > > > Thanks, > > > Devi0s. > > > -- > > 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]