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MySQL Running a 99% CPU, webserver unresponsible while certain query runs.

Greetings, I run a small webhosting server, I'm experincing an important problem here, eveytime one of my clients executes certain query to their database the cpu usage of the mysqld-nt.exe process jumps to 99% and all the other services (http, pop, etc) on my server freezes for a couple of minutes (while the query runs).

Is there a way to limit the resources the mysql process uses? I any ideas on how to solve this?

I use: Windows 2003 Server, plesk 7.5.6 (windows).

Thanks in Advance

bdsmithback

What is the query? Behavior like this is often due to a query that lacks proper indexing and takes much longer than it would otherwise. You might be able to fix this problem with a bit of optimization.

atinoco

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I dont have access to the query that gets executed since i'm not executing it myself, one of my hosted clients it's running it.

He it's already working on optimizing it. But I am looking into a more permanent solution to this problem since I don't like the idea of my server becoming unavailable because my clients run big queries. There has to be a way to limit the max cpu use for mysql or do some tweaks in order to avoid this problem.

Hoping for a solution

John Mc Hale

Try increasing your query cache size!

atinoco

ASKER

here's my my.ini file for reference

[MySQLD]
port=3306
basedir=C:\\Program Files\\SWsoft\\Plesk\\Databases\\MySQL
datadir=C:\\Program Files\\SWsoft\\Plesk\\Databases\\MySQL\\Data
default-character-set=latin1
default-storage-engine=INNODB
query_cache_size=8M
table_cache=32
tmp_table_size=7M
thread_cache=32
myisam_max_sort_file_size=100G
myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size=100G
myisam_sort_buffer_size=2M
key_buffer_size=2M
read_buffer_size=1M
read_rnd_buffer_size=256K
sort_buffer_size=256K
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
innodb_log_buffer_size=1M
innodb_buffer_pool_size=16M
innodb_log_file_size=10M
innodb_thread_concurrency=8
max_connections=300
key_buffer=4M
max_allowed_packet=1M
sort_buffer=256K
net_buffer_length=4K
old_passwords=1
[client]
port=3306

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