there should be a command in mysql and mysqladmin which shows the active processlist when you have a lot of sleeping processes the show processlist in badly to handle I think there should be an output like: xxx processes sleeping and then: the same output like in show processlist for the nonsleeping processes >Submitter-Id: db4491 Originator: Dieter Becker Organization: Dr. med. dipl.-math Dieter Becker Tel.: (0 / +49) 6841 - 16 3046 Medizinische Universitaets- und Poliklinik Fax.: (0 / +49) 6841 - 16 3043 Innere Medizin III D - 66421 Homburg / Saar Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MySQL support: email support Synopsis: List of active processes Severity: non-critical >Priority: low Category: mysql and mysqladmin Class: change-request Release: mysql-3.23.41 (Source distribution) Server: /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.21 Distrib 3.23.41, for sun-solaris2.6 on sparc Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license Server version 3.23.41-log Protocol version 10 Connection Localhost via UNIX socket UNIX socket /tmp/mysql.sock Uptime: 1 day 4 hours 41 min 9 sec Threads: 59 Questions: 223750 Slow queries: 40 Opens: 11010 Flush tables: 3051 Open tables: 3 Queries per second avg: 2.167 >Environment: System: SunOS ukh3029 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 Architecture: sun4 Some paths: /bin/perl /usr/ccs/bin/make /usr/local/bin/gmake /usr/local/bin/gcc /d0/workshop/SUNWspro/bin/cc GCC: Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='' CXX='c++' CXXFLAGS='' LDFLAGS='' LIBC: -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 1607728 Oct 19 1999 /lib/libc.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 8 1998 /lib/libc.so -> ./libc.so.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 1014088 Oct 19 1999 /lib/libc.so.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 1607728 Oct 19 1999 /usr/lib/libc.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 8 1998 /usr/lib/libc.so -> ./libc.so.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 1014088 Oct 19 1999 /usr/lib/libc.so.1 Configure command: ./configure --with-charset=latin1 --with-extra-charsets=all Perl: This is perl, version 5.005_02 built for sun4-solaris --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php