>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Moon <brian@stripped> writes:
Brian> Last night our mysql server ate up all the CPU on our machine. A
Brian> processlist revealed about 90 processes with a status of 'statistics'. What
Brian> does that status mean? I assume it means that mysqladmin status or
Brian> mysqladmin extended-status is being run. That could be. Is that what it
Brian> means, and why did it hoe mysql. I gave it 30 minutes to work it out and
Brian> then had to kill the process.
Hi!
'statistics' means that MySQL is in the join optimizer; This may take
a long time if you have MANY tables in a query and no proper indexes.
Please repost with mysqlbug script + a full example of your problem,
Yours,
Monty
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