RE: mysqld shows high cpu usage over extended time, restart = normal

[Terry]

hi,
> load).  Is there a known issue (running on FreeBSD 4.8, 
> MySQL 3.23.55 MyISAM)?

its been a known issue for quite a long time
use linuxthreaded version and it should work fine.

although much of work has been done on threads implementation,
there are still such problems with mysql. it happens even on freebsd 5.0

regards,
terry