I would increase your myisam_sort_buffer_size considerably just for
this operation. You've got your key_buffer set high, but your sort
buffer is comparatively low for creating a big index.
One way you can tell how far along the index is, is to look at how
quickly the index file is growing and
Hi.
I need to index about 300 million 20-byte records, but it takes
forever (it isn't finished yet, after almost 24 hours, so I don't have
actual numbers).
I'm using RHEL, kernel 2.6.9, Mysql 4.1.11, MyISAM table, on a dual
Xeon with 4GB RAM and IDE disks. I'm using the following values from
/my
