On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:54:59PM -0400, Ryan Shrout wrote:
>
> This message is broken into two parts because the MySQL list blocked
> it as being too big!!!
>  
> Okay, here is the problem: everyone once in a while, say once or
> twice a day, my web server running RH 7.2, PHP 4.0.6 and MySQL, will
> seem to freeze (from a web users point of view).  Upon SSH'ing into
> the server, and running "top" I see the system load averages in the
> 90s (!!!) and all I see for processes on the list is mysqld.  The
> CPU usage is at 100%, and the top mysqld process ususally is taking
> 14% or so, then 12% then a lot of 10%, and on down until it goes off
> the list.
> 
> Below, I have included a copy of the "top" status during one of the
> afore mentioned problem times:

Your system has a fair amount of memory.  Can we see the output of
SHOW PROCESSLIST, SHOW STATUS, and maybe SHOW VARIABLES when this
happens?

You might want to try out mytop

  http://public.yahoo.com/~jzawodn/mytop/

to get an idea of what MySQL is doing at various times.

Jeremy
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