Re: Repair with key cache

2002-05-13 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:23:36AM -0400, Ramon Arias wrote: > Jereymy, > > Thanks a lot for your explanation on "Repair with key cache", > I was reading the online help, but could not get a clear picture of > what was going on. So I gess allocating as much memory as posible to > the key bu

RE: Repair with key cache

2002-05-13 Thread Ramon Arias
nks Ramon -Original Message- From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Paul DuBois; Benjamin Pflugmann; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Repair with key cache On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 08:39:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: &g

Re: Repair with key cache

2002-05-12 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 08:39:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Paul, do you have any idea what this "Repair with keycache" state, > is all about. It means that MySQL is building up the indexes on the imported data. It is doing so using the keycache (or key_buffer) just as it does during

Re: Repair with key cache

2002-05-11 Thread sup-mysql
Ah! ok, I get your point. I am working with a pretty big database so I had to add a lot of horse power to that machine. Paul, do you have any idea what this "Repair with keycache" state, is all about. I am looking at the processes and basically mysql is doing nothing while on this stage, however

Re: Repair with key cache

2002-05-11 Thread Paul DuBois
At 20:20 -0400 5/11/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Paul, > I dont quite understand what you mean when you say "I guess you >want your machine to thrash, then." Most people don't have over a gig of physical memory. Setting the buffer sizes to such huge amounts in such cases will cause a lo

Re: Repair with key cache

2002-05-11 Thread sup-mysql
Paul, I dont quite understand what you mean when you say "I guess you want your machine to thrash, then." Ramon On Sat, 11 May 2002, Paul DuBois wrote: > At 15:44 -0400 5/11/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Benjamin... > > > > I get a feel for the amount of activity by looking at

Re: Repair with key cache

2002-05-11 Thread sup-mysql
Paul I have 1536MB of RAM and have turned off disk swap. Ramon On Sat, 11 May 2002, Paul DuBois wrote: > At 15:44 -0400 5/11/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Benjamin... > > > > I get a feel for the amount of activity by looking at the > >processes running and the amount of cpu time the

Re: Repair with key cache

2002-05-11 Thread Paul DuBois
At 15:44 -0400 5/11/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Benjamin... > > I get a feel for the amount of activity by looking at the >processes running and the amount of cpu time they are using.. (on >linux: ps xu) > Correct me if I am wrong. I understand that the sort_buffer is the >most imp

Re: Repair with key cache

2002-05-11 Thread sup-mysql
Benjamin... I get a feel for the amount of activity by looking at the processes running and the amount of cpu time they are using.. (on linux: ps xu) Correct me if I am wrong. I understand that the sort_buffer is the most important when creating keys... I set the sort buffer to 10

Re: Repair with key cache

2002-05-11 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. How do you define/determine "activity"? The operation is probably I/O bound. From the message you get I assume increasing the key cache matter. Regards, Benjamin. On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 11:00:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When loading large amounts of data into MySQL the