Re: InnoDB vs myISAM disk space usage

2002-11-27 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:26:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyone knows the reason of this disk usage of innoDB (it's 2 time > bigger than myISAM) InnoDB has larger per-record overhead (row headers and such). -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAI

Re: InnoDB vs myISAM disk space usage

2002-11-27 Thread Owen Medd
Just to contribute our anecdotal experience, we also found a 2x increase in space required when we converted our MyISAM tables over to InnoDB. While it was surprising, it wasn't unexpected. We just had to go buy another 60GB of disk space (luckily we had planned for this). :) Owen On Wed, 2002-

InnoDB vs myISAM disk space usage

2002-11-27 Thread tommaso . nolli
Hello all, I'm using mySQL for many databases, now I want to test innoDB so I have created another DB (on the same machine) and I have populated it with the same data of the first DB (via: insert into table_name select * from db1.table_name); I have this tables: tableA:   80.000 recs tableB, tab