On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:13 AM, mos <mo...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I updated from MySQL 5.01 to 5.1 a few days ago. My Delphi application runs
> on XP with 3GB ram.
>
> I have a query #1 that executes a simple Select statement that fetches 5000
> rows from a single table sorted by date. (no joins)
>
> Inside a loop if any rows need to be updated, another query #2 will update
> that row and then a Next statement goes to the next row in Query#1 and this
> repeats until all the rows from the table are traversed. This seems pretty
> simple and has worked fine in v5.0.1. Since upgrading to v5.1.30 after a few
> hundred rows have been updated, the Next statement will hang for 60 seconds
> and then I get a "lost connection to mysql server" message. If I take the
> updates out of the loop, it completes just fine. So why are a few thousand
> updates causing a problem inside of a loop? The updates are updating 1 row
> at a time and does not alter any of the keys in the table.

Is there anything in the error log?


-- 
Baron Schwartz, Director of Consulting, Percona Inc.
Our Blog: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/
Our Services: http://www.percona.com/services.html

-- 
MySQL General Mailing List
For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
To unsubscribe:    http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org

Reply via email to