Bug #29551 Though sort_buffer_size=5GB only 4.28GB are allocated as sort buffer.
Submitted: 4 Jul 2007 14:38 Modified: 30 Jul 2007 21:08
Reporter: Horst Hunger Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.1.16 OS:Any (64bit, Windows, Solaris)
Assigned to: Assigned Account CPU Architecture:Any

File: Maximum allowed size is 50MB.
Description:
Privacy:

If the data you need to attach is more than 50MB, you should create a compressed archive of the data, split it to 50MB chunks, and upload each of them as a separate attachment.

To split a large file:

[9 Jul 2007 18:18] Horst Hunger
test program to reporiduce the bug.

Attachment: bug29551sort_buffer.test (application/octet-stream, text), 5.86 KiB.