index failure, cannot generate.

[H M Kunzmann]

Hi all.

I am running RH9.0 with MySQL 4.0.13

I am trying to create a fulltext index on a 1.5GB table with 400
records. Whenever I do a create index (retried this a couple of times),
the index size grows to only 8MB before the index completes. When using
this index in fulltext searches, the search takes 1.5 Minutes.

It seems to me like MySQL fails to generate the index correctly.
Is this a bug ? Does anyone know what's going on ?

Thanks in advance.
Herbert