Re: Is it Normal ?

[Michael Widenius]

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Matthias> Oh yes, while we're at it: FEATURE REQUEST: a time limit for queries.
Matthias> Two reasons:
Matthias> - the query is blocking updates, which in turn are blocking other queries,
Matthias> - the system will read all of the database into memory, therefore causing a
Matthias>   swap-out of everything else, thus killing off the performance of
> everything
Matthias>   else that happens to run on the machine.

This is already on the MYSQL TODO (but not that high up)

Regards,
Monty