RE: DROP TABLE TOOK 39MIN

2009-11-10 Thread Parikh, Dilip Kumar
: DROP TABLE TOOK 39MIN Hi Michael, Already using innodb_file_per_table. Krishna On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Michael Dykman mdyk...@gmail.com wrote: Under InnoDb, you could use file-per-table which would have significantly reduced the inter-dependencies.. given the large data size and heavy

Re: DROP TABLE TOOK 39MIN

2009-11-10 Thread Johan De Meersman
min to drop the table. Thanks, Dilipkumar -Original Message- From: Krishna Chandra Prajapati [mailto:prajapat...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:04 AM To: Michael Dykman Cc: MySQL Subject: Re: DROP TABLE TOOK 39MIN Hi Michael, Already using

Re: DROP TABLE TOOK 39MIN

2009-11-09 Thread Johan De Meersman
Presumably because you are removing 189 gigabyte of data and 549 gigabyte of indexes, all of which need to be marked as deleted in your innodb file. I/O is rather expensive :-) On MyISAM this would have been close to instantaneous (as you probably expected), because the datafile is used only for

Re: DROP TABLE TOOK 39MIN

2009-11-09 Thread Michael Dykman
Under InnoDb, you could use file-per-table which would have significantly reduced the inter-dependencies.. given the large data size and heavy I/O you report, it might be a wise way to go. - michael dykman On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Johan De Meersman vegiv...@tuxera.be wrote: Presumably

Re: DROP TABLE TOOK 39MIN

2009-11-09 Thread Krishna Chandra Prajapati
Hi Michael, Already using innodb_file_per_table. Krishna On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Michael Dykman mdyk...@gmail.com wrote: Under InnoDb, you could use file-per-table which would have significantly reduced the inter-dependencies.. given the large data size and heavy I/O you report, it