May be the mysqld server has exceeded max-connections, and is therefore not able to serve any clients ( but you should have a log for that), is this your server, and does this happen at peak times, and what happens after the circle, mysqld just dies ....
Kishore Jalleda On 3/7/06, Karl Schock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > my problem: I run a phpbb-Forum with a mysql database on a linux > server. > Every 5 - 7 days the mysql database runs in a vicious circle: > > "mysqladmin --user=x --password=y ping" says that the "connect failed". > The socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock is there. > "ps aux | grep mysqld" shows me some mysqld-processes. But one of them > is marked as "<defunc>". > > To find the reason causing the problem I started mysqld with the > "--log"-option and the "--log-error"-option as recommended by others > to me at forums.mysql.com. > Now I have a log-file, but as far as I can judge it there > are no error-messages in the log-file but only innocent queries. > The mysqld.err-log-file is allways empty (0 Bytes). > > What else can I do to observe myslqd? > > If this mailing list is not the right place to ask such > questions please let me know. > > Bye > Karl > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
