Is there any way to put a limit on the size of temporary tables? Or is it possible for my users to put the server down just by creating some kind of big cartesian product as a result of a big join?
The server is used in an production environment and it would be a great releaf if there is some way I can stop the users from filling up the disks. -- lars On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, gerald_clark wrote: > You may have a malformed join that is giving you a very large result set. > These would be the temporary tables. > > Lars Andersson wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I manage a mysql server with a few hundred users. All of a sudden mysql > >has started to put large files in /tmp > > > >I've never noticed this behavior before. The files looks like this > > > >-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 3788431360 Oct 31 17:49 #sql420e_36b82b_1.MYD > >-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1024 Oct 31 17:39 #sql420e_36b82b_1.MYI > >-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1094713344 Oct 31 17:49 #sql420e_36b8c6_1.MYD > >-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1024 Oct 31 17:45 #sql420e_36b8c6_1.MYI > > > >I wonder if this is the result of someone making a heap table to big to > >fit into the servers memory? > > > >How do I stop these files from filling my diskspace. The server filled > >10GB of space in notime and forced me to halt the server and put in some > >extra disks and symlink some directories to the new disks. > >query,sql --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
