George,
----- Original Message -----
From: ""George Law"" <glaw@stripped>
Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:10 PM
Subject: allocate space for innodb innodb_file_per_table
> Hi All,
>
> I am running mysql 5.0.18 with a innodb table of 9 GB (plus several
> others)
> on suse linux 9.3 with 4 GB ram.
>
> when doing a show table status command, this table shows Data_Free:0
>
> I assume this is because it is the "file per table" setting, where the
> tables fall outside of the main ibdata files.
Data_free = 0 in this case means that the whole .ibd file is currently
allocated for that table. If you delete many rows from the table, you may
see Data_free bigger than 0.
> The ibdata files are all preallocated when mysql starts up, is there
> anyway
> to preallocate the "file per table" files as well?
No.
> Is there a specific innodb list?
There is an InnoDB forum:
http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?22
> Thanks to Gleb's answer and the hint on the bulk load setting in my.cnf -
> that seems to have helped some what.
> I notice in the load data command there is a "CONCURRENT" option - but as
> far as I can tell, that only does MyISAM tables? You also suggested
> disablign the keys.
Disabling keys has no effect on InnoDB type tables.
> I think I tried that, but with a table with 7 mil rows,
> that takes longer than the load data :-\
>
> TIA.
>
> George Law
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
