MySQL, Wordpress, and crashed tables…
Folks,
Just a note that the (Xen) guest kernelpodcast.org is running on occasionally OOMs, and that this is being fixed with a virtual RAM upgrade. Meanwhile, on the few occasions this has happened, it has taken down MySQL, leading to crashed database tables. Wordpress then assumes it has just been newly installed…and one ends up with a database filled with a new “test page”, “test post”, “test comment”, etc. for each time someone tries to open the site. Not a particularly helpful situation.
If anyone knows how to tell wordpress, in case this ever happens again, “I am really installed but MySQL might have crashed uncleanly and need a manual myisam check, and under no circumstances should you flood the database with crap”, I would love to hear from you 
Jon.
