[arch-general] Mariadb eats system ressources

Pierre GINDRAUD pgindraud at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 15:28:00 UTC 2014


Hi,

Have you an phpMyAdmin installed on your apache server ?

If yes log in as privileges user, and go to section Status, then Query
statistics and you will able to see what kind of queries is executed. Maybe
you will find the guilty request ?

Best regards

2014-10-09 16:47 GMT+02:00 <rumpelsepp at sevenbyte.org>:

> Hi,
>
> after struggling with this problem for one week I have finally decided
> to post on the arch list for getting some help. I have a very strange
> problem with mariadb from the official repos.
>
> I run a usual LAMP stack (apache, php-fpm, mariadb) on archlinux. Since
> one week (or so) I have realized a very strange behavior: One mariadb
> process stucks on 100 percent CPU usage. I am not able to figure out
> what's going on. Restarting mariadb fixes the problem for a few hours.
> Here is a list of a few debug outputs [1]; I have put it in my pastebin
> because my email client would wrap the text at 80 chars. If you need
> even more information I can update the paste.
>
> The mariadb status page shows about 6,5 queries per second (!) and I
> don't know where this comes from. I have disabled remote access with
> "skip-networking" (mysql port is closed) and the PROCESSLIST does only
> show one process. I thought it might be an DDoS attack on a website but
> no apache access-log grows unexpectedly. Even after stopping apache
> mariadb stucks on 100 percent cpu usage.
>
> I figured out that there are listed a lot of connections in the output
> of "show status like 'Con%';". Last hour I even had about 5000
> connections but there are no appropriate queries visible in the general
> log. The general log lists the wordpress queries which are executed when
> I click on my homepage. Everything looks fine; the cpu usage does not!
> Do you have any ideas what I can do to figure out what's going on with
> my mariadb?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Stefan
>
> [1]: http://snippets.sevenbyte.org/8/raw/
>



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Pierre GINDRAUD

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