Lock the @code{mysqld} process in memory. This works only if your system
supports the @code{mlockall()} system call. This may help if you have
a problem where the opearting system is causing @code{mysqld} to swap on disk.
a problem where the operating system is causing @code{mysqld} to swap on disk.
@item --myisam-recover [=option[,option...]]] where option is one of DEFAULT, BACKUP or FORCE.
@item --myisam-recover [=option[,option...]]] where option is one of DEFAULT, BACKUP, FORCE or QUICK.
If this option is used, @code{mysqld} will on open check if the table is
marked as crashed or if if the table wasn't closed properly
(The last option only works if you are running with @code{--skip-locking}).
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@item DEFAULT @tab The same as not giving any option to @code{--myisam-recover}.
@item BACKUP @tab If the data table was changed during recover, save a backup of the @file{table_name.MYD} data file as @file{table_name-datetime.BAK}.
@item FORCE @tab Run recover even if we will loose more than one row from the .MYD file.
@item QUICK @tab Don't check the rows in the table if there isn't any delete blocks.
@end multitable
Before a table is automaticly repaired, mysqld will add a note about this
in the error log.
Before a table is automaticly repaired, mysqld will add a note about
this in the error log. If you want to be able to recover from most
things without user intervention, you should use the options
@code{BACKUP,FORCE}. This will force a repair of a table even if some rows
would be deleted, but it will keep the old data file as a backup so that
you can later examine what happened.
@item --pid-file=path
Path to pid file used by @code{safe_mysqld}.
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@menu
* MyISAM:: MyISAM tables
* MERGE::
* MERGE:: MERGE tables
* ISAM:: ISAM tables
* HEAP:: HEAP tables
* BDB:: BDB or Berkeley_db tables
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@multitable @columnfractions .40 .60
@item @strong{Option} @tab @strong{Meaning}
@item @code{--myisam-recover} @tab Automatic recover of crashed tables.
@item @code{--myisam-recover=#} @tab Automatic recover of crashed tables.
@item @code{-O myisam_sort_buffer_size=#} @tab Buffer used when recovering tables.
@item @code{--delay-key-write-for-all-tables} @tab Don't flush key buffers between writes for any MyISAM table
@end multitable
The automatic recovery is activated if you start mysqld with