Re: The difference between 1.9G and 2.2G table when create Index

2003-07-05 Thread James Yang
Thanks guys, Actaully my Hard disk is 10G, just for one table. There is enough table space. I noticed when I created index for 1.9G table, at the first phase, mysql copy table, but mysql doesn't write to the tmp index file, I means the filesize of the tmp index didn't increase. When I create in

Re: The difference between 1.9G and 2.2G table when create Index

2003-07-05 Thread Fred van Engen
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 03:16:11PM +0200, Fred van Engen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:03:17PM +, James Yang wrote: > > I have a MYISAM table, which is about 2.2G and 19,000,000 records. When I > > create indexs for it, I couldn't finish after 4 hours. > > You mean it was still running?

Re: The difference between 1.9G and 2.2G table when create Index

2003-07-05 Thread Fred van Engen
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:03:17PM +, James Yang wrote: > I have a MYISAM table, which is about 2.2G and 19,000,000 records. When I > create indexs for it, I couldn't finish after 4 hours. You mean it was still running? Was there still disk or CPU activity after 4 hours? >

The difference between 1.9G and 2.2G table when create Index

2003-07-05 Thread James Yang
Hello MySQL, I have a MYISAM table, which is about 2.2G and 19,000,000 records. When I create indexs for it, I couldn't finish after 4 hours. But when I reduce the records to 16,000,000, about 1.9G, the same index can be finished within 35 minutes. Can anyone explain it? Thanks in advance. I a