still trying to track down the root cause of this issue, I've been playing with the settings in my.cnf with some success. I get seemingly less "MYTH_PROTO_VERSION was empty" when I switch from the default my.cnf for openSUSE to the my.cnf for "large systems" from /usr/share/mysql. Since I just had my first MYTH_PROTO_VERSION error in 48 hours, I figured I'm on the right track and just went down to the my.cnf for "medium systems".<div>
<br></div><div>However, I also found my way to the <a href="http://mysqltuner.pl">mysqltuner.pl</a> script from the wiki and used it to make some suggested changes for my system. My MBE runs as a FE as well as a backend/MySQL with 3GB RAM, minus (I think) 256M for onboard Intel video. Am I just running out of memory?</div>
<div><br></div><div>top says:</div><div><br></div><div><div>PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND</div></div><div><div>18132 mythtv 20 0 296m 141m 23m S 0 4.7 119:41.58 mythfrontend</div>
<div> 2892 root 20 0 442m 93m 3940 S 0 3.1 5:34.75 X</div><div>29951 mythtv 20 0 277m 66m 9592 S 0 2.2 0:31.90 mythbackend</div><div>29937 mysql 20 0 233m 45m 5108 S 0 1.5 3:55.40 mysqld</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Here's what I have for the global section of my current my.cnf:</div><div><br></div><div><div>key_buffer = 16M</div><div>max_allowed_packet = 1M</div><div>table_cache = 64</div><div>sort_buffer_size = 512K</div>
<div>net_buffer_length = 8K</div><div>read_buffer_size = 256K</div><div>read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K</div><div>myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M</div><div>character-set-server = utf8</div><div>default-character-set = utf8</div>
<div>key_buffer_size = 128M</div><div>query_cache_size = 8M</div><div>query_cache_limit = 1M</div><div>join_buffer_size = 128K</div><div>tmp_table_size = 32M</div><div>max_heap_table_size = 16M</div><div>thread_cache_size = 4</div>
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