I ran into the same issues on RH8, with a default implmentation. It can be overcome, but the mysql failed to write to the table after 2gb or so. It turned out to be a filesystem limitation issue, which was fixable. I am not sure, but given the size of files nowadays, RH9 defaults probably take care of it. I am currently running several very large tables on RH8 (5-30G) and it is stable. One should always beware that large tables can easily be corrupted, and are not a joy to recover though :-/
P Alan Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/06/2004 05:57 PM To: Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MySQL on Linux Thank you, a much reasoned and sensible reply. This is information people can use, as oppose to the posts that 'say well its okay for me, you must be stupid' types. ;) Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 06), Alan Williamson said: > >>>the most popular would have been Red Hat, which doesn't have this >>>limit you speak of, even plain vanilla install (no twiddling >>>needed). >> >>Not to spoil a perfectly good pontification ... but i have to say >>that we have a Redhat8 distribution running on a Dell PowerEdge >>Server and when Apache gets to the 2GB size on its access file, it >>does indeed stop. This is not old hardware (12months old). > > > That is because although Linux binaries can access files over 2gb, they > do not do so by default. Apache was probably not compiled with the > required defines (-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64), so > that's why it stops at 2gb even though both the kernel and filesystem > most likely do support larger files. > > >>So the question still remains. What would happen in MySQL when that >>file isn't allowed to grow any further? > > > Mysql's configure script checks for systems that require special flags > to access large files, so no mysql binaries should have this problem on > modern Linux systems (i.e. any 2.4 kernel) -- 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]