I am running mySQL Server 5.0.37 on a Windows 2003 Server.
I have a table that I want sorted by three columns (column1, then column2, then column3).
I can sort one column just fine. But, if the recordset is large, sorting by two (or more) columns crashes the mySQL Server Service.
Through research it looks like I am having a memory problem as the following error message is written to the MySQL error log:
080325 14:27:10 [ERROR] C:\SWsoft\Plesk\Databases\MySQL\bin\mysqld-nt.exe: Out of memory; restart server and try again (needed 32776 bytes)
The my.ini file shows the following values:
sort_buffer_size=256K
sort_buffer=256K
Oddly enough, phpMyAdmin shows the following:
sort buffer size 32,776
I increased the sort_buffer_size and sort_buffer in my.ini to 512k, but this did not help.
I am also concerned that if I successfuly increase the buffer sizes too big, I will have problems with my Windows Server (512MB) if I have a large number of users running this query at the same time.
Any help on how I can resolve this would be greatly appreciated.
