On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 03:25:14PM +0100, Nick A. Sugiero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed MySQL on a Windows 2003 Server last night to pull some
> stats from a online game I run, however everytime a query is sent to the
> database it uses 100% cpu causing a 100% cpu spike for a breif second - I'm
> using .asp pages if that helps.
> 
> Is there anyway to avoid this at all as it effects the performance of the
> server / game and I'm also worried someone could use such a thing to cause a
> Denial of Service attack.

Make sure your queries are well optimized.  If they're not, they'll
generally result in excessive CPU utilization.

Jeremy
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