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I have about 5 million records in a table which uses Innodb as storage engine. I have about 6000 users who use (do transactions) the same table. It sometimes becomes very slow or hangs. I decided to manually change to MyIsam. When I try to copy to another table and change the storage engine in phpmyadmin, it gives me Max Locks Exceeded Error. What should I do?

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IT's not quite clear whether you try to change the engine of the original table or that of the copy. However, I think you should first disconnect all the other connections (and don't let users reconnect until you finish). – dezso Nov 9 '12 at 12:07

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The solution is simply to edit my.cnf, and add or edit the following line:

innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M

To make it work, I set the size in bytes, so if I wanted 256 megabytes for my buffer pool, I would write 268435456. It would look like like this thus:

innodb_buffer_pool_size = 268435456
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Thanks for this Obama—your edit is great. – Jack Douglas♦ Nov 11 '12 at 7:13

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