>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Roussey <sroussey@stripped> writes:
>> From: Michael Widenius [mailto:monty@stripped]
>> You have to use MyISAM to get this feature; I didn't want to touch
>> the 'quite stable' ISAM code with the large changes that was required
>> to get this to work.
Steven> Speaking of...
Steven> We have a table (OK, really a set of 10 tables) that we use to hold a cache.
Steven> This table gets so many deletes, and inserts, it is constantly changing.
Steven> After a week, the site dies to MySQL performance problems, easily solved by
Steven> isamchk'ing the cache tables. Or using 'Optimize table'.
Steven> Since we are on Linux, and would have to take down the server to do a
Steven> isamchk, we use 'optimize table' instead. This works fine, unless the tables
Steven> get corrupted, which happens to these tables from time to time, I think do
Steven> to the amount of deletes, etc, happening. When optimize table find one of
Steven> these, MySQL crashes (in the middle of the night).
Steven> Once upon a time, I think I remember Monty saying that there would be an
Steven> update such that you can run isamchk from inside mysql. Does this mean that
Steven> optimize table will be more stable? Will we be able to do isamchk calls with
Steven> Linux without taking down the server?
Yes to all of the above; Jani or Sasha will starting to work on
integrating myisamchk (not isamchk) into the server within 2 weeks.
Regards,
Monty
