Re: InnoDB: Cannot allocate 18446744073709540680 bytes of memory after 60 retries over 60 seconds.

On 01/02/17 16:11, djburbridge_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks again - I tried innodb_force_recovery=2, and was then able to get into the database & copy everything.
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> I then moved to 5.7.17. Tried with the same datadir, but still got the error.
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> Reinitialised with a new datadir, no error - now I just need to import all the data back in again:-)
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> Still don't really know what was wrong...
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> Thanks for you assistance anyway!
>
Sounds like disk corruption.

If the disk has any diagnostics, now might be a good time to use them.

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