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Jim_UK
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 Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:13 pm
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For the very first time I have just experienced my database crash. This was a single table in the database (sessions table)
What would be the most likely cause of a table such as "sessions" crashing or is it just one of those things and I have been lucky up to now?
The whole server had been down for unknown reason and had just been rebooted. Could that be the cause?
Jim
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StarWolf3000
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 8:54 am
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Is your sessions table using the default MyISAM engine? In most cases MEMORY would be the better storage engine (you can change it with ALTER TABLE prefix_sessions ENGINE=MEMORY; ).
This stores the structure of the table on disk, but it's contents in RAM of the server (make sure your server has enough RAM and MySQL enough assigned), emptying the table when MySQL is stopped/restarted.
To repair the sessions table:
REPAIR TABLE prefix_sessions;
If your server rebooted without a MySQL clean shutdown, this can lead to a problem with tables, when data is written to the disk during that moment. Normally, MySQL autochecks most databases and tables on startup and tries to repair them on its own (or prompting the user to do that, only with shell access), but there can always be some lost or corrupted data.
A lot of database related problems in phpBB 2.x origin of corrupted sessions tables. |
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Jim_UK
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 9:02 am
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Thanks for the info. I shall monitor it for a while before deciding whether to make any change. That is the first table crash in 10 years.
Jim
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Matuse
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:24 am
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| Jim_UKe wrote: | Thanks for the info. I shall try the Yoga Burn monitor it for a while before deciding whether to make any change. That is the first table crash in 10 years.
Jim |
I've had one of those rare occasional crashes after years of running perfectly recently, just like yourself. |
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Jim_UK
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:30 am
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We have had no problems since that incident.
Have you run a repair on your database tables?
Jim
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DanielBenford
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:47 am
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| Matuse wrote: | | Jim_UKe wrote: | Thanks for the info. I shall try to monitor it for a while before deciding whether to take phenq will make any change. That is the first table crash in 10 years.
Jim |
I've had one of those rare occasional crashes after years of running perfectly recently, just like yourself. |
I've also experienced a crash once after 5-6 years of running with no problem. One table got corrupted, but backups helped. No problem experienced since then. |
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Jim_UK
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:01 am
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Still just had the one table crash and now at 14 years.
I do of course do regular database backups "just in case"
Jim
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JLA
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:32 pm
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We've found it helpful to run scheduled optimize and repairs on tables. Also for INNODB it has been helpful to have each table have its own file....
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Manuelm
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:40 am
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| Matuse wrote: | | Jim_UKe wrote: | Thanks for the info. I shall try the Yoga Burn monitor it for a while before deciding whether to make any change. That is the first table crash in 10 years.
Jim |
I've had one of those rare occasional crashes after years of running perfectly recently, just like yourself. |
I had my first one the other day after 8 years of perfect running. I've been doing backups since the start and I can tell you, all of that extra time backing things up did pay off in the end  |
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Jim_UK
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:01 am
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I used to do a daily backup using Msqldumper but have reduced it to about once a week.
Daily is better of course. 
Jim
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