This section describes how MySQL responds to disk-full errors (such as “no space left on device”), and to quota-exceeded errors (such as “write failed” or “user block limit reached”).
This section is relevant for writes to
MyISAM
tables. It also applies for writes
to binary log files and binary log index file, except that
references to “row” and “record”
should be understood to mean “event.”
When a disk-full condition occurs, MySQL does the following:
It checks once every minute to see whether there is enough space to write the current row. If there is enough space, it continues as if nothing had happened.
Every 10 minutes it writes an entry to the log file, warning about the disk-full condition.
To alleviate the problem, take the following actions:
To continue, you only have to free enough disk space to insert all records.
Alternatively, to abort the thread, use mysqladmin kill. The thread is aborted the next time it checks the disk (in one minute).
Other threads might be waiting for the table that caused the disk-full condition. If you have several “locked” threads, killing the one thread that is waiting on the disk-full condition enables the other threads to continue.
Exceptions to the preceding behavior are when you use
REPAIR TABLE
or
OPTIMIZE TABLE
or when the
indexes are created in a batch after LOAD
DATA
or after an ALTER
TABLE
statement. All of these statements may create
large temporary files that, if left to themselves, would cause
big problems for the rest of the system. If the disk becomes
full while MySQL is doing any of these operations, it removes
the big temporary files and mark the table as crashed. The
exception is that for ALTER
TABLE
, the old table is left unchanged.