Fabrice > Of course we can have a look a it. That is great! > Is there additional instructions for b) point ? If yes, could you send > it to us ? 1) Have a RunDeepForcedSource table ready. It should not be a production database, because we will be doing bad things to it. 2) Disable indexes (alter table RunDeepForcedSource disable index, than ) 3) do not use that table through mysql while doing everything below. Either shut down mysqld, or run "flush cache" and don't touch that table 4) then test myisamchk, note that this is command line tool time /usr/local/mysql/bin/myisamchk -v -t <tmp_dir> --force -o --update-state -p --key_buffer_size=8M --sort_buffer_size= <~1/2 of your RAM available> --read_buffer_size=16M --write_buffer_size=16M <mysql data dir>/<db>/RunDeepForcedSource.MYI that will most likely fail, see https://dev.lsstcorp.org/trac/wiki/mysqlLargeTables Then apply the patch and retry, Monty mentioned some extra switches (--force --force, etc), see his email, and try them Please capture output (and the timing!) for each thing you run. it is probably better to use a machine that has reasonable amount of memory (say 32 or 64G), not insanely large amount of memory (on a machine with 256G ram I couldn't reproduce this problem). It is important that the <tmp dir> has enough space, at least the size of one copy of RunDeepForcedSource.* files. thanks Jacek ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the QSERV-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=QSERV-L&A=1