We've been using mysql version 4.7 on a FreeBSD 4.10 machine for the
past few months, and while we've been putting a lot of load onto the
DB, it's been stable. This past weekend, our sysadmin updated FreeBSD
from 4.10 to 4.11, at which point mysql began having serious problems.
The DB itself is fine, but the process in FreeBSD instead of spending
CPU time ends up hung in a state of "biord", during which NO database
operations can take place. From what I've been able to tell, this is a
blocking I/O state, but what we can't figure out is why it's suddenly
doing this, and how to get it to stop.

Other than standard start-stop-reboot and so on, here are several
remedies we've tried: rollback to BSD 4.10. Blocking state remains.
Upgrade mysql to latest release (also 4.11): Blocking state goes from
90% of the time to 50% or so, but remains. The next step we're going
to try is to switch out hardware to a BSD 5 machine and hope that
solves the issue. But we've had no luck trying to figure out what's
happening. Other states we see are "ffsfsn" and the occasional
"sbwait".

Has anyone else had a similar issue, and if so how did you address it?

Thanks!

-- Joe

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