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Changing tmpdir causes InnoDB to break
Posted by: Emma Griffiths
Date: November 05, 2009 10:16AM

Hi All

I have been having some issues with my installation of MySql (server version 5.0.67 running on Ubuntu).

I have some databases where one table is ~1.5Gb in size and this has been causing me no end of problems, with kernel "Out of memory" errors occuring.

I recently realised that by increasing the swap space to about 3X the size of the maximum table I was getting rid of some of these problems on a slightly smaller database. Now I have a MySQL problem rather than a kernel one!

Trying to run my rather large select and sort query on the huge table tells me I have an Error 3 unable to write /tmp/.... My research suggested that this could be fixed by editing the my.cnf file so that tmpdir points to a much larger space. I tried this, restarted the server and found that all the InnoDB tables broke, I got an error: ERROR 1033 (HY000): Incorrect information in file.

I can fix this by putting the tmpdir back to /tmp but it doesn't help me as there isn't enough spce in /tmp! How can I increase this without breaking the InnoDB tables?

Furthermore, I've noticed that my ibdata1 is ~23GB in size, is this normal?! I have no ibdata2 and the ib_logfiles are both 5120KB in size.

My my.cnf contains the following:
[client]
port

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