4.2.1 to 4.2.3 upgrade?

[patracy]

So I'm working on an upgrade for my forum. Going from 4.2.1 PL1 to 4.2.3 PL2. Database is about 3gb in size from mysqldump uncompressed. I kicked off the CLI upgrader an hour ago. It returned a few lines about upgrading to 4.2.2, then a few more about 4.2.3 with some Beta versions. At Beta 4 it listed 3 steps (Altering postlog and two session tables). Then stated upgrading to 4.2.3 Release candidate 1. These steps all completed pretty fast. I'm now at a point saying Upgrading to 4.2.3. There's a line below it that only says "Step 1 - " With the cursor stopped past that point. I assume it's still working on stuff though as I see a mysqld process chugging away with one cpu core. Memory for that process doesn't seem to be changing much if any. CPU percentage varies a little from 97% up to 103%, but mainly hovering around 100. (4 CPU server)

How long should the upgrade take? I read to have patience with it from other posts on the web. But I ran the CLI upgrade since it's a larger forum with lots of posts. Is there anything I can look at to get a feel for where things stand?

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2hrs into this now, nothing has changed on the CLI window for the script. There's still the mysqld process running and using a CPU. Looks like SHR has increased a little for it.

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Guess I was just too anxious. The CLI upgrade script finished up after about 4 hours total. Starting to rebuild searching and all the other housekeeping items now.

[Paul M]

You must have a lot of attchments, that step is processing them.

[patracy]

Oh yes, we have over 50gb of attachments in the file system.

[Paul M]

Its the actual number of them rather than the size of them, but yeah, sounds like you have a lot.