https://ronaldbradford.com/tags/crash/ Recent content in Crash on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:41:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unexpected-mysqld-crashing-in-5-5-2010-11-22/ Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:41:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unexpected-mysqld-crashing-in-5-5-2010-11-22/ An update of MySQL from 5.0 to 5.5 on CentOS 5.5 64bit has not resulted in a good experience. The mysqld process would then crash every few minutes with the following message. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/how-to-crash-mysqld-intentionally-2010-03-05/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:27:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/how-to-crash-mysqld-intentionally-2010-03-05/ While some may think I’m daft, I have a legitimate reason for wanting to crash mysqld. However first we need to find a way to crash it. Great thanks to Alan K, Mark L, Harrison and Hartmut on #mysql-dev for several suggestions and a config option I was unaware of. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/calculating-your-database-size-2009-09-25/ Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:06:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/calculating-your-database-size-2009-09-25/ I generally use the following MySQL INFORMATION_SCHEMA (I_S) query to Calculate Your MySQL Database Size . This query and most others that access the MySQL INFORMATION_SCHEMA can be very slow to execute because they are not real tables and are not governed by physical data, memory buffers and indexes for example but rather internal MySQL data structures.