Comments on: Measuring free space in InnoDB’s global tablespace http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/09/07/measuring-free-space-in-innodbs-global-tablespace/ Stay curious! Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cédric http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/09/07/measuring-free-space-in-innodbs-global-tablespace/#comment-20226 Cédric Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:40:13 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2839#comment-20226 Andrew, the data_free column doesn’t show the free space in the “global” system tablespace (ibdata) or I don’t really understand what do you mean…

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/09/07/measuring-free-space-in-innodbs-global-tablespace/#comment-20219 Xaprb Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:00:12 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2839#comment-20219 Thanks Andrew! That’s too obvious. They should make it harder to find.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/09/07/measuring-free-space-in-innodbs-global-tablespace/#comment-20218 Andrew Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:06:08 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2839#comment-20218 InnoDB shows free space in the data_free column since early versions of 5.1. So this won’t show up in the Comment field on any recent version.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/09/07/measuring-free-space-in-innodbs-global-tablespace/#comment-20217 Xaprb Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:14:18 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2839#comment-20217 I’d completely forgotten the tablespace monitor. (Now I forget what’s actually IN it.) Thanks Dan and Justin!

]]> By: AussieDan http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/09/07/measuring-free-space-in-innodbs-global-tablespace/#comment-20214 AussieDan Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:06:31 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2839#comment-20214 This sounds like it might give you the info you’re after:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-monitors.html#innodb-tablespace-monitor

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