Quickest way to delete enormous MySQL table

Question

I have an enormous MySQL (InnoDB) database with millions of rows in the sessions table that were created by an unrelated, malfunctioning crawler running on the same server a

Answer 1

We had these issues. We no longer use the database as a session store with Rails 2.x and the cookie store. However, dropping the table is a decent solution. You may want to consider stopping the mysql service, temporarily disable logging, start things up in safe mode and then do your drop/create. When done, turn on your logging again.