Hi!
This looks like a http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=18160
On Jul 27, bwillits@stripped wrote:
> I am using 64bit Linux with 32Gb Ram with mysql v5.0.19. When I create
> and load Memory tables of about 2Gb each, the size of memory used by
> the mysqld process increases as expected. Here are the issues I am
> having.
>
> 1) The rate of growth of the memory used by mysqld does not seem to be
> in line with the size reported for the table(s) (data_length,
> index_length). The mysqld process grows at about double the rate of
> the memory table growth.
>
> 2) When I drop the memory tables, the memory used by mysqld does not
> reduce. This means that as I drop and recreate memory tables, the
> memory used on the server continues to grow, eventually using up all
> available memory and causing the server to crash.
>
Regards,
Sergei
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