On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:12:33AM -0500, shawn xu wrote: > We have MySQL 3.23.53 running on Intel machine with OS > BSDI 4.3. > > The problem happened more often like this. > > MySQL eated up 99% cpu time which was told by running > "top". When this happened, I guess it still answer > queries, but it is too slow to answer, which results > in the customers complaining. > > What we have tried, none of them work except wiping > the disk and reinstalling everything.
I don't know anything about BSDI. If it's anything like FreeBSD, there are some bugs in its native thread library and some system calls that cause this to happen. http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000203.html#000203 You might try disabling name resolution to see if that helps. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 21 days, processed 626,740,119 queries (340/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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