Nathan,
you can use SHOW INNODB STATUS\G to monitor how many rows per second it is
inserting to the new, reorganized table.
If the workload is disk-bound, it may be as low as 100 rows per second. Then
inserting 20 million rows will take 2 days.
Best regards,
Heikki
Oracle Corp./Innobase Oy
InnoDB - transactions, row level locking, and foreign keys for MySQL
InnoDB Hot Backup - a hot backup tool for InnoDB which also backs up MyISAM
tables
http://www.innodb.com/order.php
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Gross" <nat101sql@stripped>
Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:58 PM
Subject: Optimize: 14 hours and still running!
> On a 1.6ghz, 1gb ram, Linux machine running Mysql 4.1x.
> I have an Innodb table with over 20 million records and index size
> about 3.7 gig, data size 2.2gig (yes, many indexes, more space then
> the data itself). Last night I tried an Optimize from the Admin gui
> console (logged in as root at the host server), and the thing is still
> running!
> Problem is I need to leave early this evening and have to take some
> action.
>
> The Linux 'top' utility has it on the top since then at about 11%-18%
> cpu Disk activity is continuously heavy.
>
> 1. How long should it take?
>
> 2. If I hit <cancel> will it:
> a) Roll back what it did, another 14 hours!
> b) Just stop as if nothing happened.
> c) The table will be partially optimized and will run normally.
> d) hang the process and/or machine.
>
> 3. Is the data in jeopardy?
>
> Thank you all.
> -nat
>
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