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Re: MyISAM - Large Memory Footprint
Posted by: Rick James
Date: September 07, 2010 08:34PM

MyISAM footprint...

key_buffer will grow up to key_buffer_size (which was limited to 4GB in older versions). Index blocks are cached (intelligently) there.

Data is cached by the OS, which uses most of the left over RAM for that.

So, to some extent, MySQL does it 'right' for MyISAM.

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