----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Kantarjiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <mysql@lists.mysql.com> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:06 PM Subject: very large key_buffer on amd64?
> We're starting to use mysql (4.0.25) on an amd64 machine (running > NetBSD-3). One of the reasons for doing this is to use much more > RAM - we tend to thrash the key_buffer on i386 because one of our > indexes is 10GB in size (the table is 15GB). > > It appears that mysqld won't start if the setting for key_buffer > is more than 2GB. Maybe you've also hit the quirks of memory management and malloc, just as we've posted a while ago in http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/186930 ? I assume that you've installed an appropriate 64-bit version of MySQL... Regards, Jigal. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
