Re: ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table is full converting a big table from MyISAM to InnoDB on 5.0.18

2006-01-16 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Patrick, people have created files at least up to 500 GB using InnoDB's auto-extend feature. What does: ulimit -a say about the 'file size' of the user running mysqld? Have you put some disk space quotas on the directories of the MySQL datadir? Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think

ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table is full converting a big table from MyISAM to InnoDB on 5.0.18

2006-01-15 Thread Patrick Herber
Hello! I have a database with a big table (Data File 45 GB, Index File 30 GB). Since I have some performance troubles with table-locking in a multi-user environment (when one of them performs a complex query all the other have to wait up to 1 minute, which is not very nice...), I would like to

Re: ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table is full converting a big table from MyISAM to InnoDB on 5.0.18

2006-01-15 Thread Jocelyn Fournier
Hi, I think you should change the tmpdir variable value to a directory which have enough room to create your temp big table (by default, it points to /tmp dir). Regards, Jocelyn Patrick Herber a écrit : Hello! I have a database with a big table (Data File 45 GB, Index File 30 GB).

RE: ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table is full converting a big table from MyISAM to InnoDB on 5.0.18

2006-01-15 Thread Patrick Herber
Thanks a lot for your answer! However, when I used the option innodb_file_per_table I saw that the temp file (#sql...) was created in my DB directory and on this partition I still have plenty of space (more than 200GB). Do you think I CAN'T use this option for such a big table and I have to use