MySQL Bugs: #20255: Download Documentation Request

Bug #20255	Download Documentation Request
Submitted:	4 Jun 2006 4:55	Modified:	8 Jun 2006 19:51
Reporter:	Robert Nice	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Documentation	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:		OS:	Linux (Linux x86)
Assigned to:	Eric Braswell	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
It's pretty much impossible to get the mysql-standard package running with the my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf file because of the 2GB buffer pool. This is on a 4GB x686 type server.

It seems that the standard release is statically linked to an older version of glibc which won't allow a 2GB malloc. The mysql-max version doesn't seem to have a problem with this, it's either dynamically linked or linked against something newer.

I'm filing this to beg for a big notice on the download page to save other people hours of message board searching looking for an answer to a mysterious malloc failure.

How to repeat:
N/A

Suggested fix:
Either dynamically link the standard version, or put a big warning with it.

Please, indicate version of MySQL Server.

I'm guessing any, but I tried it with 5.0.22

Thank you for reasonable feature request. Documentation should be updated.

Max memory limit comes from 32-bit architecture, not from MySQL. MySQL on 64-bit CPU and you can allocate more than 4G to single buffer. But on 32-bit CPU there is same result and for mysqld-max. Server starts, but output of  SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS displays what INNODB support turned off.

This is not a documentation request. The download pages are maintained by our web team. I'm closing this bug and filing a web request.