You may have had that problem or it could be something else like suboptimal Innodb configuration or simply much larger Innodb tables so worse memory usage.The fact you had blobs is yet another question as Innodb may not be optimal with these.As always any benchmarks show performance in particular case ??? in your case opposite may well be true. l1t says March 11, 2007 at 6:24 pm create table tf (i