>>>>> "James" == James Tyson <james.tyson@stripped> writes:
James> Hi.
James> Firstly, let me give you some background.
James> I am running MySQL 3.22.22 (was 3.22.19b but I upgraded, and it didnt fix
James> my problem) on a Slackware 3.6 Linux box running linux-threads and glibc1.
James> I am having problems with a select from a large (165Mb) table.
James> I am trying to find a way to cut out duplicate entries.
James> This table is backed up configurations for Ascend Max boxes, and they are
James> about 20k each, they are inserted each night, at midnight, and I am trying
James> to create a perl script to remove all the dup's (the configs dont change
James> that much) from the table.
James> Here is the query I run:
James> select distinct configuration, hostname, type, timestamp, status from configs
James> what happens then is that mysqld dies, and I get no errors or core's it
James> just dies:
James> mysqld started on Mon May 10 10:54:35 NZST 1999
James> /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections
James> 990510 10:54:35 Aborting
James> mysqld ended on Mon May 10 10:54:35 NZST 1999
James> I am not sure what the story is, but if anyone can help I would really
James> appreciate it.
James> I have attached the perlscript to this mail, in the hope that someone can
James> find a better way of doing it.
James> Thanks in advance.
Hi!
In this case its very likely that MySQL is waiting on a disk full
condition!
- Check what MySQL is doing with 'mysqladmin proc'
- Use 'top' to check that MySQL is running.
- Check the MySQL log files for any recent entries.
- Check the MySQL documentation, Section 'Debugging MySQL'.
Regards,
Monty
