Bug #49491 Much overhead for MD5() and SHA1() on short strings
Submitted: 6 Dec 2009 23:14 Modified: 12 Mar 2010 16:35
Reporter: Jan Steemann (OCA) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: General Severity:S5 (Performance)
Version:5.1.38 and above OS:Any
Assigned to: Davi Arnaut CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: Contribution, md5, performance, sha1

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:

[6 Dec 2009 23:15] Jan Steemann
Patch for sql/item_strfunc.cc for MySQL 5.1.38

Attachment: md5_sha1_speedup.diff (application/octet-stream, text), 2.08 KiB.