Bug #46669 mysql freezes during ALTER TABLE
Submitted: 12 Aug 2009 5:50 Modified: 24 Aug 2009 7:31
Reporter: Tom Keyser Email Updates:
Status: Can't repeat Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: InnoDB storage engine Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:5.0.82-percona-highperf-b16-log OS:Linux (Centos 5.3)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: ALTER TABLE, freeze, innodb

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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.

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[12 Aug 2009 7:55] Tom Keyser
example of long wait.. no other traffic to mysql except phpmyadmin ( this just happened while I was reading your response)

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[12 Aug 2009 7:58] Tom Keyser
How long do you think I should wait, before I kill mysqld?

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[12 Aug 2009 7:59] Tom Keyser
Is this long enough?

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[12 Aug 2009 8:10] Tom Keyser
Notice my phpmyadmin screen never completed loading. And its now been stuck for 1233 seconds.

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