How to kill locked queries

2010-10-14 Thread monloi perez
All, Is there a mysql configuration to kill queries that have been locked for quite some time. If there's none what is an alternative approach to kill these locked queries and what is the root cause of it? Thanks, Mon

Re: How to kill locked queries

2010-10-14 Thread Johan De Meersman
The root cause is another query that has tables locked that your locked queries want. Behind that may be, for example, an inefficient but often-executed query, high I/O concurrency that has a cumulative slowing effect, or maybe simply a long-running update that might be better scheduled during the

Re: How to kill locked queries

2010-10-14 Thread Claudio Nanni
Hi Mon, Killing locked queries is not the first step in database tuning. Queries locked for a long time usually depend on slow updates that lock other updates or selects, this happen on MyISAM (or table level locking engines). If you are really sure you want and can without problems kill the

Re: How to kill locked queries

2010-10-14 Thread monloi perez
Does this happen if your table is InnoDB? Thanks all, Mon From: Claudio Nanni claudio.na...@gmail.com To: monloi perez mlp_fol...@yahoo.com Cc: mysql mailing list mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 3:16:38 PM Subject: Re: How to kill locked

Re: How to kill locked queries

2010-10-14 Thread Johan De Meersman
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:19 AM, monloi perez mlp_fol...@yahoo.com wrote: Does this happen if your table is InnoDB? That depends on the type of lock. If no lock type is specified, InnDB will prefer row locks, while MyISAM will do table locks. That may help, unless all your queries are trying

Re: How to kill locked queries

2010-10-14 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Johan De Meersman vegiv...@tuxera.be wrote: That depends on the type of lock. If no lock type is specified, InnDB will prefer row locks, while MyISAM will do table locks. That may help, unless all your queries are trying to access the same rows anyway :-)