Re: very slow select with join

2005-01-28 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: "Pavel Novak" > | 1 | SIMPLE | o | ALL| NULL | NULL|NULL > | NULL| 20402 | Using temporary; Using filesort | Well, this is a clue IMHO... no suitable indexes in o could be found to use in this query... Since you use a lot of columns fro

Re: FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables (looking for a workaround)

2005-01-28 Thread Sasha Pachev
symbulos partners wrote: Thanks for the extremely useful answer. Some comments, questions here below. On Friday 28 Jan 2005 16:38, you wrote: No, only the BLOB/TEXT columns need to be moved to MyISAM. Yes, I thought of doing so. The drawback is that you de-normalise the database. Is that correct?

Re: Fixed with Fields

2005-01-28 Thread Eamon Daly
Are you talking about display width? Use the RPAD function: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/string-functions.html mysql> SELECT RPAD('foo', 20, 'x') AS foo; +--+ | foo | +--+ | foox | +--+ ___

Re: Data in different tables or is one big table just as fast?

2005-01-28 Thread Sasha Pachev
Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:47:47 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/01/2005 11:23:46: We have a table that grow by 200MB each day. Should we put data in different tables or is one big table just as fast? We w

Re: FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables (looking for a workaround)

2005-01-28 Thread Nick Arnett
symbulos partners wrote: Is there any other workaround? The reason because we are using InnoDB is because there s full support - for foreign keys, - for joint queries - for rollback on commit Does anybody know any other way of indexing the table in a way, which would allow full text search?

Re: Why MySQL is very slow in dropping indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
> > This extreme slowness in dropping a simple index in > > MySQL defeats the whole strategy of dropping indexes > > on some tables before a huge insert operation. > > See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/alter-table.html , > especially these bits: > > "Note that if you use any other option to AL

Re: Date Conversion on Mysql 4.0.2

2005-01-28 Thread Sasha Pachev
Minh La wrote: Hi, Can some help me with a date conversion problme that I am having. I have a date data in the following format: 'Month Days Year Hour:Minute AM/PM' Example: 'Aug 21, 2004 2:00 PM' So far the hours that I have spent have been in vain. I tried using str_to_date, but it keeps failin

Re: Why MySQL is very slow in dropping indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread Sasha Pachev
Homam S.A. wrote: Dropping an index on a MyISAM table should be instantaneous. It should only take as long as deleting the idx file from the file system. But it's taking almost as long as creating the index itself! Here's my queries and time they took: /*[10:58:17 AM][367172 ms]*/ alter table MyTab

Re: Why MySQL is very slow in dropping indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread Keith Ivey
Homam S.A. wrote: This extreme slowness in dropping a simple index in MySQL defeats the whole strategy of dropping indexes on some tables before a huge insert operation. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/alter-table.html , especially these bits: "Note that if you use any other option to ALTER

Re: Why MySQL is very slow in dropping indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread SGreen
"Homam S.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/28/2005 02:27:51 PM: > Dropping an index on a MyISAM table should be > instantaneous. It should only take as long as deleting > the idx file from the file system. But it's taking > almost as long as creating the index itself! > > Here's my queries and

Why MySQL is very slow in dropping indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread Homam S.A.
Dropping an index on a MyISAM table should be instantaneous. It should only take as long as deleting the idx file from the file system. But it's taking almost as long as creating the index itself! Here's my queries and time they took: /*[10:58:17 AM][367172 ms]*/ alter table MyTable add index (My

Re: Fixed with Fields

2005-01-28 Thread Nick Arnett
Dathan Pattishall wrote: Use char And use fixed-length types for *all* columns... one variable-length column makes all records variable-length. Nick -Original Message- From: Marc Michalowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:28 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com S

Re: Date Conversion on Mysql 4.0.2

2005-01-28 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Minh La wrote: So far the hours that I have spent have been in vain. Next time a couple of minutes with the Fine Manual instead? :-) I tried using str_to_date, but it keeps failing. Looks like it's not in version 4.0.2? Quoting the FM: "STR_TO_DATE() is available as of MySQL 4.1.1." FWIW, -- Ha

Date Conversion on Mysql 4.0.2

2005-01-28 Thread Minh La
Hi, Can some help me with a date conversion problme that I am having. I have a date data in the following format: 'Month Days Year Hour:Minute AM/PM' Example: 'Aug 21, 2004 2:00 PM' So far the hours that I have spent have been in vain. I tried using str_to_date, but it keeps failing. Looks lik

RE: Fixed with Fields

2005-01-28 Thread Dathan Pattishall
Use char DVP Dathan Vance Pattishall http://www.friendster.com > -Original Message- > From: Marc Michalowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:28 AM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Fixed with Fields > > I was wondering if there is a way to

Fixed with Fields

2005-01-28 Thread Marc Michalowski
I was wondering if there is a way to create fixed width fields. Example: The field is set to 18 but data contained is 11. I need the length to remain 18. Is there anyway to do this? Thanks for your help. -Marc -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsub

Re: Easy newbie question re: option file and passwords

2005-01-28 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:47:24 +0200, Gleb Paharenko wrote: > Hello. > > The mysql program uses user sebyte and password for user ddj. > When mysql starts it calls for load_defaults(), which put > the arguments from your config file before the command line options > that you specified. And than us

Re: COMPLICATED UPDATE

2005-01-28 Thread SGreen
"Diana Castillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/28/2005 11:53:20 AM: > how do I make a query that does this? > update tbl_a set location_code=0 where tbl_a.country_id = (select id from > countries where has_zones=0) > The UPDATE statement (as of 4.0.4) allows you to update multiple tables at

Re: Data in different tables or is one big table just as fast?

2005-01-28 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:47:47 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/01/2005 11:23:46: > > > We have a table that grow by 200MB each day. > > > > Should we put data in different tables or is one big table just as fast? > > We will fo

RE: 2 gigs limits on MyISAM indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread Donny Simonton
What does the error log say? Anything? Donny > -Original Message- > From: Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:42 AM > To: Mat > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: 2 gigs limits on MyISAM indexes? > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 0

Re: FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables (looking for a workaround)

2005-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the extremely useful answer. Some comments, questions here below. On Friday 28 Jan 2005 16:38, you wrote: > No, only the BLOB/TEXT columns need to be moved to MyISAM. Yes, I thought of doing so. The drawback is that you de-normalise the database. Is that correct? There are 2 alterna

Re: FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables (looking for a workaround)

2005-01-28 Thread symbulos partners
Thanks for the extremely useful answer. Some comments, questions here below. On Friday 28 Jan 2005 16:38, you wrote: > No, only the BLOB/TEXT columns need to be moved to MyISAM. Yes, I thought of doing so. The drawback is that you de-normalise the database. Is that correct? There are 2 alterna

Re: COMPLICATED UPDATE

2005-01-28 Thread Mat
That depends on what version of MySQL you are using. MySQL 4.1+ has support for subselects, so you could do what you have there. I'm assuming that you're running < 4.1, otherwise you would have tried that code and found it to work... You may have to get the result of (select id from countries w

RE: COMPLICATED UPDATE

2005-01-28 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] how do I make a query that does this? update tbl_a set location_code=0 where tbl_a.country_id = (select id from countries where has_zones=0) [/snip] Read about multi-table updates here http://www.mysql.com/update -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mys

Re: list of error codes

2005-01-28 Thread beacker
>Note that this error list is for the Linux version (parts differs for >another OS). More error descriptions can be found in the header files. >(forgot currently which ones). If you search the forum for error codes and >my name than you will find the info (roughly a year+ old) The typical pla

Re: FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables (looking for a workaround)

2005-01-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
> > > As you have noticed - you cannot. > > > > > > So, all you can do is creating a MyISAM table and copying > > > the column contents. > > > > Are you suggesting to have a full copy of the table in MyISAM format? > > No, only the BLOB/TEXT columns need to be moved to MyISAM. > > > > > Is there a

COMPLICATED UPDATE

2005-01-28 Thread Diana Castillo
how do I make a query that does this? update tbl_a set location_code=0 where tbl_a.country_id = (select id from countries where has_zones=0) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 gigs limits on MyISAM indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread Mat
This may be of use to you: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/table-size.html It appears that there is no limit in MySQL itself, but maybe in the unlying operating system. Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:00:24PM +, Mat wrote: What Operating System are you run

Log data transfer amount?

2005-01-28 Thread John May
I've scoured the MySQL manuals... does anyone know if there's any way to log the amount of data that individual queries produce? Eg: like bytes transferred in a web server log? - John -- --- John May : President

Re: Full text search in mulitple-table query

2005-01-28 Thread cristopher pierson ewing
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Santino wrote: At 15:50 -0800 27-01-2005, cristopher pierson ewing wrote: Shawn, Okay, it turns out that I can solve my problem by reordering the elements of the WHERE clause at the end of the query I sent before. I've gotten good results with the following version (it breaks

Re: FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables (looking for a workaround)

2005-01-28 Thread SGreen
symbulos partners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/28/2005 11:14:00 AM: > On Friday 28 Jan 2005 15:41, you wrote: > > As you have noticed - you cannot. > > > > So, all you can do is creating a MyISAM table and copying > > the column contents. > > Are you suggesting to have a full copy of the table

Re: 2 gigs limits on MyISAM indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Denis \(Jedi/Sector One\)
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:00:24PM +, Mat wrote: > What Operating System are you running this on? Linux 2.6, 64 bits. MySQL 4.1.9. > Also, is there anything in the errorlog? Nothing, but as soon as I restart the server, it enters a strange state where all slots are full with unauthenti

Re: 2 gigs limits on MyISAM indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread Mat
What Operating System are you running this on? Also, is there anything in the errorlog? Is there a limit on the size of .MYI files? I have a database that worked flawlessly until today. I can't restart it, it immediately freezes. I noticed that the .MYI file of a table has reached e

Re: FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables (looking for a workaround)

2005-01-28 Thread symbulos partners
On Friday 28 Jan 2005 15:41, you wrote: > As you have noticed - you cannot. > > So, all you can do is creating a MyISAM table and copying > the column contents. Are you suggesting to have a full copy of the table in MyISAM format? Is there any other workaround? The reason because we are using Inn

Re: FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables

2005-01-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hello, > I would need to index FULLTEXT two columns in a InnoDB table. How do you solve > the problem? As you have noticed - you cannot. So, all you can do is creating a MyISAM table and copying the column contents. With regards, Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase

Re: Innodb transactions

2005-01-28 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. In my opinion, you should use SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation level or SELECT ... LOCK IN SHARE MODE. "?ngelo M. Rigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding 8bit, charset: iso-8859-1, 25 lines --] > > Hi > > I am using innodb tables to implement transactio

FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables

2005-01-28 Thread symbulos partners
Dear friends, I would need to index FULLTEXT two columns in a InnoDB table. How do you solve the problem? -- symbulos partners -.- symbulos - ethical services for your organisation http://www.symbulos.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscr

very slow select with join

2005-01-28 Thread Pavel Novak
Hello, I am clueless of this query, becaouse it's very slow - between 30 and 60 seconds: mysql> SELECT DISTINCT o.id AS id, o.orderid AS orderid, o.serialid AS serialid -> FROM orders o -> LEFT JOIN editor e1 ON o.createdby = e1.id -> LEFT JOIN editor e2 ON o.changedby = e2.id -> L

Re: DB recovery

2005-01-28 Thread Yves Arsenault
Thanks, That was pretty easy... And, thank you mysql! ;-) Yves On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:14:37 -0600, Tom Crimmins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > This box recently crashed as a result of a power outage (possible surge, my > surge protector may have failed) > The box doesn't boot up

RE: Export database to XML/UML/Webpage?

2005-01-28 Thread Kevin Cowley
As long as you've only got 1 instance of Mysql and it's on the default port! Otherwise use one of the MySQL products. Kevin Cowley R&D Tel: 0118 902 9099 (direct line) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.alchemetrics.co.uk > Fabforce's DBDesigner 4 is fantastic... *

RE: Export database to XML/UML/Webpage?

2005-01-28 Thread Erich Beyrent
[[snip]] > Have you looked into using the MySQL Administrator yet? It's a GUI program > that should do most of what you want (I know it doesn't diagram but it's > somewhere to start). You will have to search around to find some other > ER-based GUI administrator tools because I can't think of an

2 gigs limits on MyISAM indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Denis \(Jedi/Sector One\)
Is there a limit on the size of .MYI files? I have a database that worked flawlessly until today. I can't restart it, it immediately freezes. I noticed that the .MYI file of a table has reached exactly 2 gigs. May it be related? Is there anything to do in order to recover the data an

Re: Export database to XML/UML/Webpage?

2005-01-28 Thread SGreen
Mike Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/28/2005 07:57:06 AM: > Hello, > >I am looking to export a mysql database to a gui type interface. > Basically i'm looking at a big database and I wanna dump it to a > webpage/uml where I can add notes on what each table is and what it > does, e

Re: Easy newbie question re: option file and passwords

2005-01-28 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. The mysql program uses user sebyte and password for user ddj. When mysql starts it calls for load_defaults(), which put the arguments from your config file before the command line options that you specified. And than uses the last given argument. It looks like mysql was invoked with

Re: non-unique key of multiple columns

2005-01-28 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. >I am not sure if the key is only built on a single col ( I added Use SHOW INDEX or SHOW CREATE TABLE statements. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/show-index.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/show-create-table.html I think you should send your query, the output of

Re: mysqld restarts with no apparent reason

2005-01-28 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. >/usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. > Version: '4.0.23' socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' port: 3306 Source > distribution > 050125 15:58:44 mysqld restarted The mysqld_safe script writes to error log that mysqld was restarted. So I don't see any useful in erro

Re: Circumventing the max_allowed_packet limit?

2005-01-28 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. > Q2. I doodled around a little bit with the SET command and I was able to > change the session version of the max_allowed_packet server parameter. Both the client and the server have their own max_allowed_packet variable, so if you want to handle big packets, you must increase this

Re: Install error - unable to wite to /tmp/root/

2005-01-28 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Not enough information to make a conclusion. Please, send us information about MySQL and operating system versions. What value does your environment variable TMPDIR have? [snip] I am having a problem starting up mysql. I am unable to run the mysql_install_db routine. When I run it

Re: cascade on delete problem

2005-01-28 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Your syntax shouldn't work in the MySQL server (comas at the end of CREATE TABLE statments). What type of storage engine do you use? You can see it with the following statement: SHOW CREATE TABLE MENU_GROUP; [snip] DROP DATABASE builder2; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO [EM

Re: InnoDB engine as default for an entire database

2005-01-28 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. You can change it by using the --default-storage-engine or --default-table-type server startup option, or by setting the storage_engine or table_type system variable. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/storage-engines.html symbulos partners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: ERROR 1006: Can't create database

2005-01-28 Thread Jordan Morgan
Thanks! That makes senses. And once I chmod as instructed, I can create directory in the mysql folder. Tom Crimmins wrote: [snip] How can find the user mysql password? The hosting company which I got the dedicated server package from set that up of course. Should I go to phpAdmin and reset that p

RE: DB recovery

2005-01-28 Thread Tom Crimmins
[snip] This box recently crashed as a result of a power outage (possible surge, my surge protector may have failed) The box doesn't boot up, but the HD is ok... all my docs are there.. So, I'm wondering if it's somehow possible to get the MySQL 3 files and recreate them on another box we have

RE: ERROR 1006: Can't create database

2005-01-28 Thread Tom Crimmins
[snip] How can find the user mysql password? The hosting company which I got the dedicated server package from set that up of course. Should I go to phpAdmin and reset that password so that I know what it is from now on? [/snip] The mysql linux user should not be able to login interactivly, just

Core exam

2005-01-28 Thread VWilliams
On the Pearson Vue website, two MySQL Core exams are listed: 001-002 and 001-003. Which do I choose for the 4.0 exam before February 1? -- Vincent Williams -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fw: MySQL - install failure on XP Toshiba laptop

2005-01-28 Thread SGreen
This was sent to me, off list. I am just forwarding it to it's original targets. -- Shawn - Forwarded by Shawn Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 01/28/2005 09:00 AM - Kyle Elmblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/27/2005 04:59:28 PM: > Hello Simon, > > I ran accross the post below in the M

DB recovery

2005-01-28 Thread Yves Arsenault
Hello, I have a server here that ran MySQL 3.23.x This box recently crashed as a result of a power outage (possible surge, my surge protector may have failed) The box doesn't boot up, but the HD is ok... all my docs are there.. So, I'm wondering if it's somehow possible to get the MySQ

Re: ERROR 1006: Can't create database

2005-01-28 Thread Jordan Morgan
I was told to try this: chown mysql.mysql -R /var/lib/mysql chmod 750 -R /var/lib/mysql and it worked afterward. So that's the datadir permission problem. How can find the user mysql password? The hosting company which I got the dedicated server package from set that up of course. Should I go to

RE: InnoDB engine as default for an entire database

2005-01-28 Thread Artem Koltsov
default-storage-engine=INNODB in [mysqld] section of the config file will make InnoDB default for a server. > -Original Message- > From: symbulos partners [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 8:03 AM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: InnoDB engine as default for

Re: How big is too big?

2005-01-28 Thread Brent Baisley
The problem isn't really if the database fits into RAM, it's if your index does, if your searches use the index. Databases can easily outgrow even the maximum RAM you could install on even a high end machine. So while it's ideal to fit your database in RAM, it's not always feasible. Your first

Export database to XML/UML/Webpage?

2005-01-28 Thread Mike Jennings
Hello, I am looking to export a mysql database to a gui type interface. Basically i'm looking at a big database and I wanna dump it to a webpage/uml where I can add notes on what each table is and what it does, even just dumping to a webpage would be fine cause i can edit from there. is ther

Circumventing the max_allowed_packet limit?

2005-01-28 Thread Martin Olsson
Hi MySQL ppl, I recently ran into some problems with uploading large files through a HTML form and then putting these files into a MySQL BLOB field. I read about the server parameter max_allowed_packet which turned out to be the problem. My script is going to be redistributed to it needs to run

Innodb transactions

2005-01-28 Thread Ângelo M. Rigo
Hi I am using innodb tables to implement transactions on my system here is the pseudo code: SET AUTOCOMMIT = 0 BEGIN if(erro){ ROLLBACK } else { COMMIT } When i do commit a transaction and list the data im my web aplication the records are not acurate . How can i get the rigth data ?

RE: How big is too big?

2005-01-28 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] ...big... [/snip] We are running OpenBSD servers utilizing a dual Xeon processor architecture with a 1TB RAID. We have a database using MyISAM tables...here are some stats from phpMyAdmin on one database on this server -- 20 table(s) Sum 347,092,085 --149.6 GB Two tablea in this

InnoDB engine as default for an entire database

2005-01-28 Thread symbulos partners
Dear friend, is it possible to select the InnoDB engine as default for an entire database? What we want is to create all InnoDB tables, without using the declaration type=innodb. -- symbulos partners -.- symbulos - ethical services for your organisation http://www.symbulos.com -- MySQL Genera

show full processlist question

2005-01-28 Thread Ângelo M. Rigo
Hi I didn´t find it in the documentation I would like to know if the collumn time in the command show full processlist show the seconds the query is taking to execute!? Thank´s in advance - Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. In

undelete data

2005-01-28 Thread Jae Kim
I accidently deleted a number of data records (83 records) from a table using 'delete' SQL command. I want to recover the deleted data. I checked the table with 'myisamchk'. the result is as follows. myisamchk seitext.MYI Checking MyISAM file: seitext.MYI Data records: 7 Deleted blo

AMD64 and thread stack size

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Denis \(Jedi/Sector One\)
It looks like the default thread stack is not large enough for MySQL 4.1 on Linux running on AMD64. With NPTL, the database quickly crashed after a few hours of heavy load (segv). Without NTPL, I believed it wasn't the case. But after one week mysqld process were stuck in a strange state.

Re: Full text search in mulitple-table query

2005-01-28 Thread Santino
At 15:50 -0800 27-01-2005, cristopher pierson ewing wrote: Shawn, Okay, it turns out that I can solve my problem by reordering the elements of the WHERE clause at the end of the query I sent before. I've gotten good results with the following version (it breaks all the fields in the Fulltext sea

Re: Data in different tables or is one big table just as fast?

2005-01-28 Thread Alec . Cawley
Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/01/2005 11:23:46: > We have a table that grow by 200MB each day. > > Should we put data in different tables or is one big table just as fast? > We will for new data do select, update and insert and for old data > only select. It is not possible

Data in different tables or is one big table just as fast?

2005-01-28 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
We have a table that grow by 200MB each day. Should we put data in different tables or is one big table just as fast? We will for new data do select, update and insert and for old data only select. Any help would be great. Thanks, Jacob -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://li

Re: How big is too big?

2005-01-28 Thread Marcus Joyce
The maximum single file size of a system is as follows, *Operating System* *File-size Limit* Linux 2.2-Intel 32-bit 2GB (LFS: 4GB) Linux 2.4 (using ext3 filesystem) 4TB Solaris 9/1016TB NetWare w/NSS filesystem8TB win32 w/ FAT/FAT32 2GB/4GB win32 w/ NTFS 2TB (possibly

Re: MySQL Load Balancing w/ Alteons...Half Open Connections

2005-01-28 Thread Kevin A. Burton
Ian Sales (DBA) wrote: Kevin A. Burton wrote: Define DoS? - Denial of Service... ug... Thats not what I meant... I mean what type of behavior were you noticing? Just all connections being occupied on the server? Kevin -- Use Rojo (RSS/Atom aggregator). Visit http://rojo.com. Ask me for an

Re: MySQL Load Balancing w/ Alteons...Half Open Connections

2005-01-28 Thread Ian Sales (DBA)
Kevin A. Burton wrote: Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Has anyone ever had a problem with Alteon load balancers leaving the MySQL connections half open? After about a minute of heavy use the Alteon has completely DoS'd our MySQL servers. I know we must be doing something wrong...just not sure what. Any

Re: How big is too big?

2005-01-28 Thread Jan Kirchhoff
Misao schrieb: Our production databases here are really growing and getting to be rather big. The question on our minds is; when is a database or table just too big? We have a few 20-30GB-InnoDB-Tables (growing) without any problems (mysql 4.1.5gamma). The limits of mysql are somewhere in the t

Authenticate MySQL-Users using PAM

2005-01-28 Thread Bernhard Fiser
Im currently setting up a LAMP server which will be accessed by (a lot of) students for various courses. To handle user accounts I use PAM to authenticate ftp-logins against an LDAP server. Additionally, I'm looking for a way to authenticate MySQL users against PAM (or LDAP directly) too, so I