I'ld suggest you guys round back to the version of MySQL that didn't
have this problem, and try to figure out, possibly by giving MySQL AB
access to the server(s), or installing a debuggable executable,
what the problem is...

Obviously, if two people are hit, the problem must be other than
their env / code.

Just my $0.02,
Guus

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Henning Schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>  Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:07 AM
>  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Subject: Re: load level on linux mysql server out of control
>
>
>  At 01:46 11.09.01, you wrote:
>
>
>  >I'm having a lot of trouble tracing the origin of the problem --
>  >sometimes it seems that accessing a particular large table
>  is causing
>  >it, sometimes it seems that a combination of factors is causing it.
>  >Regardless, what I observe is that within 1 minute my load
>  level climbs
>  >from between 2 and 4 to over 100, which I have never seen
>  on any *nix
>  >system before.   The RAM utilization is high, but not over
>  85%, and the
>  >CPU utilization fluctuates of course but stays below 40% user until
>  >whatever is causing my problems happens, and then it jumps
>  to 100% and
>  >doesn't come down until I kill mysqld and let everything close.
>
>
>  hi,
>
>  same problem here. mysql 3.23.41, apache 1.3.20, php 4.0.6,
>  kernel 2.2.19,
>  debian system. 1GHz PIII 512MB. load >200. my fix for now
>  till i have a
>  better idea is to restrict the number of apache children to
>  60 which keeps
>  the load <20. which is horrible nevertheless. and extremely
>  slow for the
>  users at times. the load normalizes (to something 4-ish,
>  which is still
>  pretty high for ~50q/s) again after ~15min.
>
>  if you find out anything about that problem, PLEASE tell me.
>  i´m searching
>  for ~3 weeks and i´m not smarter in the least. and it sucks :-(
>
>  at least i didn´t have that harddisk failures. yet. but
>  then, it´s a colo
>  machine so power should be fine.
>
>  yes, dear mailing list, i know you told me my queries are, well,
>  suboptimal. but i´m not quite sure about that. more tomorrow:-)
>
>
>  greetings
>  henning
>
>
>
>
>
>
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