Subject: Re: MySQL: very large key_buffer on amd64?
To: Chris Kantarjiev <cak+gmane@dimebank.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 09/20/2005 16:49:37
Chris Kantarjiev wrote:

> So ... is is possible to bump the 8GB datasize hard limit? I've got 
> 12GB in the machine now, could put in 16GB, and would like MySQL to 
> use it all.

Sure, you can bump the hard limit by adding something like this to your 
kernel config file:

options MAXDSIZ="(12L*1024*1024*1024)"

..and reconfig+recompile

- Frank