Re: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table)

2012-09-28 Thread Larry Martell
, September 27, 2012 1:20 PM To: Rick James Cc: mysql mailing list Subject: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table) So we changed the table from MyISAM to InnoDB. I read that the 'undo log entries

checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table)

2012-09-27 Thread Larry Martell
Message- From: Larry Martell [mailto:larry.mart...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:52 AM To: mysql mailing list Subject: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table Is there any way to check on the progress of a long running alter table on a MyISAM table? I know it can

RE: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table)

2012-09-27 Thread Rick James
on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table) So we changed the table from MyISAM to InnoDB. I read that the 'undo log entries' shown in 'show engine innodb status' would correspond to the number of rows that have been operated on throughout the process

Re: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table)

2012-09-27 Thread Larry Martell
Message- From: Larry Martell [mailto:larry.mart...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:20 PM To: Rick James Cc: mysql mailing list Subject: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table) So we changed the table

Re: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table)

2012-09-27 Thread Akshay Suryavanshi
- From: Larry Martell [mailto:larry.mart...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:20 PM To: Rick James Cc: mysql mailing list Subject: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table) So we changed the table

Re: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table)

2012-09-27 Thread Larry Martell
(Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table) So we changed the table from MyISAM to InnoDB. I read that the 'undo log entries' shown in 'show engine innodb status' would correspond to the number of rows that have been operated on throughout the process of the ALTER. The table

Re: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table)

2012-09-27 Thread Akshay Suryavanshi
on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table) So we changed the table from MyISAM to InnoDB. I read that the 'undo log entries' shown in 'show engine innodb status' would correspond to the number of rows that have been operated on throughout the process

Re: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table)

2012-09-27 Thread Larry Martell
, September 27, 2012 1:20 PM To: Rick James Cc: mysql mailing list Subject: checking progress of alter table on an InnoDB table (Was: Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table) So we changed the table from MyISAM to InnoDB. I read that the 'undo log entries' shown

Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table

2012-09-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.09.2012 23:15, schrieb Larry Martell: Indexes are slowing this down. your calculation of 79 hours should be correct, only if there are no unique indexes, otherwise this will slow down more as the data increases. It is what it is - there's no free lunch - dropping the indexes, doing

Re: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table

2012-09-27 Thread Karen Abgarian
I try to figure out something observing the stats with SHOW STATUS. There are some reads, writes, etc that tell something about what is going on. Looking just at the file sizes is likely going to not tell much about the progress. If there is a better way to monitor this progress, I would

checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table

2012-09-26 Thread Larry Martell
Is there any way to check on the progress of a long running alter table on a MyISAM table? I know it can be done with an InnoDB table, but I haven't found a way to do it on with a MyISAM table. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

RE: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table

2012-09-26 Thread Rick James
. -Original Message- From: Larry Martell [mailto:larry.mart...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:52 AM To: mysql mailing list Subject: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table Is there any way to check on the progress of a long running alter table on a MyISAM table? I

RE: checking progress of alter table on a MyISAM table

2012-09-26 Thread hsv
2012/09/26 09:31 -0700, Rick James You could look at the .TYD and .TYI file sizes and compare to the .MYD and .MYI, but that can be deceptive. If the table is really big, and has lots of indexes, the generation of the indexes might go slower and slower -- hence any math on the sizes would be