Re: Mysql in replication setup

[Stuart Henderson]

> 25222 _mysql    -5    0  185M   50M sleep/0  biowai   0:14  1.42% mysqld
>
> Well... to me it looks like the box is idle... why is MySQL still pretty
> unresponsive (I tend to say slow).

It's not idle, it's waiting for i/o to complete.