My Top Processes are always: Top Process %CPU 15.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir/ --datadir/var/lib/mysql --usermysql --pid-file/var/lib/mysql/host.***.com.pid --skip-external-locking Top Process %CPU 15.4 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir/ --datadir/var/lib/mysql --usermysql --pid-file/var/lib/mysql/host.***com.pid --skip-external-locking Top Process %CPU 15.3 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir/ --datadir/var/lib/mysql --usermysql --pid-file/var/lib/mysql/host.***.com.pid --skip-external-locking What is this and is it normal? Thanks in advance.
I was just wondering the same thing and came across this page in google... Anyone have an answer to this?
skip-external-locking is enabled by default on MySQL 4.0+. You don't need to worry about that at all.
I am having the same problem of skip-external-locking process uses high cpu for hight cpu load...is there anyway to disable it..and if I did it what's the impact...can anyone please explain
If you're running wordpress, check your plugins, a single plugin could kill your server. I have a blog with more than 15,000 entries, i'm using the "Related Posts" plugin and that killed my blog. Make sure you install wp-cache too.