At 12:15 PM -0500 8/27/99, Brian Moon wrote:
>Last night our mysql server ate up all the CPU on our machine. A
>processlist revealed about 90 processes with a status of 'statistics'. What
>does that status mean? I assume it means that mysqladmin status or
>mysqladmin extended-status is being run. That could be. Is that what it
>means, and why did it hoe mysql. I gave it 30 minutes to work it out and
>then had to kill the process.
mysqladmin status will generate a "Statistics" entry in the log.
I also see that when a PHP scripts connect to the server. Dunno
why your machine did what it did, though.
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