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Hello Jacek,

Thanks for these informations, I think we will have soon a machine with
enough disk space (around 8To) available, and I hope we will have first
results for the end next week.

Do you know where it's possible to get Monty mail you're talking about ?

Thanks,

Fabrice

On Tue, May 7, 2013 9:51 pm, Jacek Becla wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

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