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

The best way I have found of doing this with MySQL is:

DELETE from table_name LIMIT 1000;

Or 10,000 (depending on how fast it happens).

Put that in a loop until all the rows are deleted.

Please do try this as it will actually work. It will take some time, but it will work.