High load of CPU on MySQL and There is No Active Query Process

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tarzan1234

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Hi All,
There is high load of CPU on MySQL and when i use show processlist to find out what query making that load, there is no query active in the processlist and evry thing seems to be normal, but when i get "top" list mysql is on the top of the list with CPU load between 100% to 150%.

its really driving me crazy and i dont know how to fix it.

thanks in advanced
 
zEitEr said:
Hello,

You might need to enable logging of slow queries, and give more RAM to your MySQL server.
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hi,
i have 2 GB ram on server and i have this server for more than a year and i never face problem like this before, and occur since 2 weeks ango, i also optimize the MySQL with /etc/my.cnf and the problem still is there.

when i restart the MySQL service every thing will go back to normal but only last for couple of minuts and again the CPU load will go to 100%
 
Open Webalizer/AwStats/GoogleAnalytics and try to find out what has changed... check hardware specially HDDs, as they from time to time are dying.... And as I previously wrote, you might need to enable slow query logging
 
My load isn't as extreme as tarzan but when the server is mainly idle (load of 0.05) the mysqld process is still consuming ~40% of cpu usage. Is this a bad thing? There are multiple sites from my clients but none of them seem to have slow queries (nothing is logged yet). How to better log which user is causing this load? Showing what queries are running only seems to return my own query, not others.
 
Good tip, tnx. Too bad the same is happening there as when I run SHOW PROCESSES in phpMyAdmin... the only thing I see is my own query and no others while the query counter is increasing. Still no clue which user is causing the most traffic.

I guess its mainly the same small short queries over and over again by apps without caching. I see 40% of the queries are 'DESCRIBE' queries used by some ORM scripts (Zend Framework, Doctrine, Propel), developers should cache this data.

update: turns out my load was caused by the leap second bug. After running "date -s now" the load immediatly dropped :)
 
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futurevision said:
My load isn't as extreme as tarzan but when the server is mainly idle (load of 0.05) the mysqld process is still consuming ~40% of cpu usage. Is this a bad thing? There are multiple sites from my clients but none of them seem to have slow queries (nothing is logged yet). How to better log which user is causing this load? Showing what queries are running only seems to return my own query, not others.
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New versions of phpMyAdmin have a nice monitor, which could help you with understanding the issue. It shows several graphs, which are changed in real time. Try to use it, just login as da_admin user into there.
 
My server is synced with ntp, that wasn't the issue, it was a known bug which even occurs when its properly synced.
 
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