Mysql server setup configuration [closed]

It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 9 years ago. We have a new centos 6.2 setup. Below … Read more

Cannot drop index from MySQL INNODB table with foreign keys/references

I’m about to drop an index from a mySQL INNODB table. There are references defined already. When I try to alter it, it says: #1025 – Error on rename of ‘X/#sql-2a5f_219828’ to ‘X’ (errno: 150) Which at first seems logical, since there are relations, it can’t be renamed. But even if I disable foreign key … Read more

InnoDB Failure of some kind [closed]

It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 8 years ago. I have MySQL 5.5 installed. I tried to … Read more

Restore InnoDB to different machine

I currently have backups that were taken with Percona XtraBackup of all my mySQL databases. My specific scenario is that I want to restore a month old InnoDB database snapshot to my local machine for testing but I can’t seem to find instructions for doing that in the Percona documentation. Reading around on Google I … Read more

mySQL keeps crashing with a specific WordPress theme enabled

nice people 😉 I have a problem with my server after I setup a new theme on one of my wordpress sites. At first mySQL started to crash once in a while, then it became more and more often and now you click on any page and the whole VPS Server goes down. Cant even … Read more

MariaDB generating INDEX_*.ibd files, racking up server space

Little bit of context before diving into the issue, I have a WordPress based blog running on 1 GB (RAM), 20 GB (disk space) linode instance. The database itself is around ~105 MB. Recently, I noticed that the entire disk space was used (from ~4 GB) with the database directory /var/lib/mysql/DATABASE_NAME consuming about ~15 GB … Read more

Cannot log in to the MySQL server after hosting company restarted my server

Today my hosting company decided to patch their systems due to Meltdown/Spectre and restart all servers. I had my CentOS 7.2 server running for 280 days with no problems of any kind at all. But now I can’t use my website anymore, it says “Error establishing a database connection”. When I try to log in … Read more

What is the best mysql configuration for mysql instance with a lot of databases and lot of tables inside?

I have a mysql database instance with more than 3000 database inside. Each database contains more than 200 tables. I have more than 100 gb of data in all these database at present. I am using windows server 2012R2 operating system with a 4GB of RAM. The RAM memory utilization of the server system was … Read more

Mysql crashing/restarting, InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1. Can’t kill via ‘stop’;

My server seems to crash/restart under a load that would not have previously made it crash. How can I troubleshoot this? VPS is running Centos 6.x, 8GB ram Mysql is crashing/restarting itself under loads that would not have previously done it in. This error: InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 pops up in the … Read more