Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> You cannot send signals to individual threads. Signals are delivered
> to the process as a whole rather than to a thread. The only way to
> kill a thread is from within the application itself. Mysql provides
> the "kill <id>" command for this.
Thanks for your reply.
What could I do about hung mySQL threads? 'kill' fails to do anything,
except marked the thread as killed but keeps it active.
Also, when I kill the mySQL parent, I have to then SIGKILL all the hung
threads thereafter. Is this normal?
I've even seen an issue where no mySQL processes exist yet I cannot
restart mySQL since an unknown process is holding port 3306. I then
kill apache and some mySQL threads appear out of no where and require a
SIGKILL. This doesn't have anything to do with this subject, but I'd
like to share my findings.
Note: These threads are NOT hung due to locking issues or the like.
-reid
