Bug #41769 Can't enable external locking in my.cnf
Submitted: 27 Dec 2008 21:44 Modified: 29 Jan 2009 8:24
Reporter: Marc Perkel Email Updates:
Status: No Feedback Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0.67 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: external_locking, locking, skip_external_locking

[27 Dec 2008 21:44] Marc Perkel
Description:
The command external_locking in my.cnf has no effect. I can't seem to find a command for my.cnf to use external_locking

How to repeat:
put external_locking in my.cnf
[29 Dec 2008 5:46] Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the report.

Please indicate accurate version of MySQL and operating system you use.
[29 Dec 2008 5:49] Marc Perkel
I'm sing Fedora linux 10. MySQL Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.67, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.1.
[29 Dec 2008 5:52] Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the feedback.

I can not repeat described behavior. Please send us output of SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%locking%'; and your configuration file.
[29 Dec 2008 5:54] Marc Perkel
-> VARIABLES LIKE '%locking%';
+-----------------------+-------+
| Variable_name         | Value |
+-----------------------+-------+
| skip_external_locking | ON    | 
+-----------------------+-------+
[29 Dec 2008 6:08] Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the feedback.

Please send your configuration file.
[29 Dec 2008 6:11] Marc Perkel
# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
port            = 3306
socket          = /mysql/mysql.sock
delay_key_write = all
key_buffer = 6G
max_allowed_packet = 32M
table_cache = 4096
tmp_table_size = 64M
sort_buffer_size = 8M
read_buffer_size = 8M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 16M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 256M
thread_cache = 512
query_cache_size = 128M
# Try number of CPU's*2 for thread_concurrency
thread_concurrency = 64
max_connections = 4000
max_connect_errors = 10000

external_locking
enable_locking
[29 Dec 2008 8:24] Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the feedback.

We still can not repeat described behavior. Please send us full error log file(turn it on first, then restart the server)
[30 Jan 2009 0:00] Bugs System
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