Bad form to reply to ones own post....but I should have emphasized my major symptom:
I cannot stop the server, "mysqladmin -pxxxxxxx shutdown" never returns. This is in addition to the "too many connections" and "forcing close of threads" errors ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Huntress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 1:21 PM Subject: At Wits End With Unstable Unusable Server > As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been using 3.23 for a very long > time with no problems whatsoever. About 1 month ago I began to have > stability problems, unable to connect, unable to shut down....hundreds and > hundreds of myslq processes > > At first I thought this was a particular user, so I rebooted my server and > started with clean logs....it hung again within minutes, so I grepped the > log to get the names of every DB that was opened in that brief time and I > took them all offline and restarted again.....lo and behold the server hung > again, so I concluded that it was not due to one users out of control query. > > I then upgraded to the current release of 3.23 (installed by rpm) and I was > happy that it appeared to fix the problem...the server was stable and > accessible for all users. However, approximately 1 week later, I am seeing > the exact same problem again and I don't know how to troubleshoot this! > > The platform is linux running 2.2.16 and is otherwise stable, there is > plenty of disk and mem so its not resources. Mysqladmin -p shutdown never > returns and the only way to restart is to reboot. > I have many " Forcing close of thread " in my error log. > > Please help! > > > Regards, > Gary "SuperID" Huntress > ======================================================= > FreeSQL.org offering free database hosting to developers > Visit http://www.freesql.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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