On 09/10/14, rumpelsepp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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/ Can you share your my.cnf and a few information on your databases you host on the mariadb server? --