Hey everyone I have more of a general question regarding your experience with large tables.
I currently have a table (MyISAM, 6 columns, lots of reading access, some writing) with about 70.000.000 records, using 2.5GB of diskspace. I am running MySQL 5.0.* on a RedHat Enterprise AS 4 system (2 CPU, 8GB Ram). I just read that the max size for a table is 256TB in a default installation. I have basically no experience with tables that big and mine is potentially growing to several hundred million records. First of all, are there theoretical limitations (if the 256TB are correct I would be fine with that I guess) in size and number of records? More importantly, what are the practical limitations and/or pitfalls? Is ext3 as filesystem a limiting factor? If you have experience or know of good links regarding this topic, please let me know Thanks in advance Olaf -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
