RE: Aborting a greedy querry from the command line

[Ciprian Vizitiu]

> On Monday 19 June 2006 04:08 pm, Logan, David (SST - Adelaide) wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > I've noticed that a Ctrl-C will also leave the query 
> running (5.0.22 -
> > Linux) and I've had to use the kill from mysqladmin or 
> mysql client to 
> > get rid of it.
> 
> Huh, that's odd, it should abort everything entirely.... even 
> with threading and what not.  Maybe a MySQL person can step 
> in here and throw in an explanation :).

It might me odd but it's true; and annoying. Have to restart the daemon
otherwise the server will continue to chew CPU and disk doing the query.