Re: MySQL Closing/Opening tables

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 27), dbrb2002-sql@stripped said:
> Thanks Dan.. thats a valuable point.. and this actually happening with
> MyISAM tables only..
> 
> But the question is; when I set the table_cache to higher than total
> tables..  then it should stop closing the table in first place..so that
> only un-opened tables will be opened and kept in cache..  it will avoid
> closing and re-opening..  but looks like it is not the case..

Even though the State column says "closing tables", it's just flushing dirty
key blocks.  I bet if you ran "show status like 'Opened_tables'" you
wouldn't see that number increment at all.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped