On Mon, April 21, 2008 07:28, Waynn Lue wrote: > Is there any way to prevent UPDATEs on one database on one mysql > instance from affecting SELECTs on other databases in the same > instance? I'm noticing a whole bunch of backed up connections on > other databases when I run massive UPDATEs on one. > > Thanks! > Are there any I/O or CPU load issues? If you don't have any stored procedures that work between them, I'd check server level limits. MySQL is supposed to be multi-threaded to avoid just this sort of problem, but if your disk and/or CPU are maxed out (or for that matter you are out of memory) the whole system may be tied up.
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