Thanks for the suggestion. That did help me find out. It wasn't idle. 
The problem is that its taking 10 seconds to insert a single record,
composed mainly of one longtext field.  The index is killing me.  Does
anyone know of how FT indexing can be changed to do inserts quicker or
something?

On 7/25/05, Richard Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
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