mo...@fastmail.fm (mos) writes: > At 12:37 AM 6/25/2009, you wrote:
... > >my.cnf based on my-huge.cnf, expanding key_buffer to 8G, > >myisam_sort_buffer_size to 256M, and putting tmpdir on the fiber channel > >disk. > > You mean "key_buffer_size" don't you and not "key_buffer"? If you > are using MySQL 5.0 then the upper limit is 4gb but 5.1 allows for > more than 4gb. That's not entirely true. Later versions of 5.0 (above 5.0.56?) also allow key_buffer_size to be greater than 4GB and we are using that on several machines. Earlier versions of 5.0 did indeed have this problem. Simon -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
