> I am fairly sure that there aren't any queries being run, but while in > the background, my mysqld process chews up exactly 50% of my cpu. It > runs queries nicely and has excellent response times for most any > query I throw at it, but its causing issues for other apps.
Try using mytop to see if there are queries going on. It's like the unix "top" command. http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/ Also try: SHOW PROCESSLIST; If you use InnoDB: show innodb status; Best regards, Richard Dale. Norgate Investor Services - Premium quality Stock, Futures and Foreign Exchange Data for markets in Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, UK & USA - www.premiumdata.net -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]