Thanks but that's not v helpful. Actually that was my thread! The problem
there was that I didn't have a large-file enabled filesystem. The problem I
have now is being able to create another index on a table but getting an
errcode 27 despite no ulimits and a large enabled filesystem.
This should be a useful thread for you
http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/167953
Suggests using ALTER TABLE .... MAX_ROWS=<a big num>
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:20:24 +0000, "J S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run the following SQL (on
> mysql-max-4.0.20-ibm-aix4.3.3.0-powerpc):
>
> CREATE INDEX timeindex ON internet_usage (time);
> CREATE INDEX urlindex ON internet_usage (urlid);
>
> but keep running into the following error:
>
> Error writing file '/proxydb/mysql/tmp/STeR39Er' (Errcode: 27)
>
> $ perror 27
> Error code 27: A file cannot be larger than the value set by ulimit.
>
> The create index gets as far as actually copying the 18GB internet_usage
> table, and then does some processing (not sure what), then falls over
with
> the error 27.
>
> The message seems to be misleading because all the ulimit values are
> unlimited. Also the filesystem is large-file enabled as shown below:
>
> $ pwd
> /proxydb/mysql/data/proxy_logs
> $ ls -l
> total 58124344
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jul 23 11:08 bulk_table.MYD
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1024 Jul 23 11:08 bulk_table.MYI
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 8970 Jul 09 14:05 bulk_table.frm
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 18550068032 Jul 23 10:45
internet_usage.MYD
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 5150286848 Jul 23 11:08
internet_usage.MYI
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 8856 Jul 09 14:05 internet_usage.frm
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 380 Jul 09 14:08 url_actions.MYD
>
> File system name /proxydb
> NEW mount point [/proxydb]
> SIZE of file system (in 512-byte blocks) [131203072]
> Mount GROUP []
> Mount AUTOMATICALLY at system restart?
yes
> +
> PERMISSIONS
read/write
> +
> Mount OPTIONS
[]
> +
> Start Disk Accounting?
no
> +
> Fragment Size (bytes) 4096
> Number of bytes per inode 4096
> Compression algorithm no
> Large File Enabled true
> Allocation Group Size (MBytes) 64
>
>
> I'm not sure what else could be wrong. I've tried creating another table
> with the new keys and selecting * from internet_usage table but I still
got
> the same error there.
>
>
> Here's some miscellaneous info which might be useful.
>
> mysql> show indexes from internet_usage;
>
+----------------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+--
---------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+
> | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name |
> Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type |
Comment |
>
+----------------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+--
---------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+
> | internet_usage | 1 | uid | 1 | uid |
A
> | 23039 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | |
>
+----------------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+--
---------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+
> 1 row in set (0.07 sec)
>
>
+----------------+--------+------------+-----------+----------------+----
---------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---
------------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------
---------+---------+
> | Name | Type | Row_format | Rows | Avg_row_length |
> Data_length | Max_data_length | Index_length | Data_free |
Auto_increment |
> Create_time | Update_time | Check_time |
> Create_options | Comment |
>
+----------------+--------+------------+-----------+----------------+----
---------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---
------------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------
---------+---------+
> | bulk_table | MyISAM | Dynamic | 0 | 0
|
> 0 | 4294967295 | 1024 | 0 | NULL |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-23 11:08:08 | NULL
|
> | |
> | internet_usage | MyISAM | Fixed | 579689626 | 32 |
> 18550068032 | 137438953471 | 5150286848 | 0 |
NULL |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-23 10:45:04 | 2004-07-09 14:13:20 |
> max_rows=4294967295 | |
> | url_actions | MyISAM | Dynamic | 18 | 21
|
> 380 | 4294967295 | 3072 | 0 | NULL |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-09 14:08:39 | NULL
|
> | |
> | url_categories | MyISAM | Dynamic | 37 | 21
|
> 780 | 4294967295 | 3072 | 0 | NULL |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-09 14:08:39 | NULL
|
> | |
> | url_methods | MyISAM | Dynamic | 37 | 20
|
> 740 | 4294967295 | 3072 | 0 | NULL |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-09 14:08:39 | NULL
|
> | |
> | url_paths | MyISAM | Dynamic | 34840346 | 64 |
> 2252492868 | 4294967295 | 1593329664 | 0 | 34840347
|
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-23 09:48:49 | NULL
|
> | |
> | url_queries | MyISAM | Dynamic | 97113 | 91
|
> 8899356 | 4294967295 | 10305536 | 0 | 97114 |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-23 09:55:03 | NULL
|
> | |
> | url_schemes | MyISAM | Dynamic | 6 | 20
|
> 120 | 4294967295 | 3072 | 0 | NULL |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-09 14:08:39 | NULL
|
> | |
> | url_servers | MyISAM | Dynamic | 576728 | 30 |
> 17727392 | 4294967295 | 19723264 | 0 | 576729 |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-23 09:38:23 | NULL
|
> | |
> | url_viruses | MyISAM | Dynamic | 1 | 20
|
> 20 | 4294967295 | 3072 | 0 | NULL |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-09 14:08:39 | NULL
|
> | |
> | url_visit | MyISAM | Fixed | 38805636 | 20 |
> 776112720 | 85899345919 | 1378707456 | 0 | 38805637
|
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-23 10:23:19 | NULL
|
> | |
> | user_agents | MyISAM | Dynamic | 1487 | 72
|
> 108540 | 4294967295 | 80896 | 0 | 1488 |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-23 09:56:42 | NULL
|
> | |
> | user_table | MyISAM | Dynamic | 23041 | 20
|
> 460820 | 4294967295 | 476160 | 0 | 23042 |
> 2004-07-09 14:05:56 | 2004-07-23 09:57:13 | NULL
|
> | |
>
+----------------+--------+------------+-----------+----------------+----
---------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---
------------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------
---------+---------+
>
>
> $ ps -ef | grep mysql
> mysql 29226 67682 0 Jul 18 -
2757:37 /proxydb/mysql/bin/mysqld
> --defaults-extra-file=/proxydb/mysql/data/my.cnf --
basedir=/proxydb/mysql
> --datadir=/proxydb/mysql/data --user=mysql
> --pid-file=/proxydb/mysql/data/rsl156.pid --port=3306
> --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock --tmpdir=/proxydb/mysql/tmp
> root 67682 1 0 Jul 18 - 0:00 sh
> /proxydb/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/proxydb/mysql/data
> --tmpdir=/proxydb/mysql/tmp --pid-file=/proxydb/mysql/data/rsl156.pid
>
> Can anyone help me out please?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> JS.
>
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