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Date:      Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:56:41 +0100 (CET)
From:      Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
To:        Simon <simon@optinet.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org>, HiTech Creations Support <htsupp@hitechcreations.com>
Subject:   Re: kern/39878: mysqld process suddenly runs at 99% CPU without load, and a restart of mysqld is required.
Message-ID:  <20030222175014.P59307@levais.imp.ch>
In-Reply-To: <200302221536.h1MFauXM030770@mail.imp.ch>
References:  <200302221536.h1MFauXM030770@mail.imp.ch>

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Hi,

>         @${ECHO} "      WITH_LINUXTHREADS=yes   Use the linuxthreads pthread library."
>         @${ECHO} "                              This is _NOT_ recommended for production"
>         @${ECHO} "                              servers. Expect problems when enabled."

I know that. It was true until now.

>
> what is the patch below for?

Mysql did not kill it's threads when using WITH_LINUXTHREADS=yes. So
you were running out of processes and fd's after some time.

Quoting Rick Reed from Yahoo!

>  The socket on which MySQL listens for new connections on a blocking
>  socket most of the time but is set to non-blocking during the
>  accept() of the new connection.  Due to a bug in the kernel, the new
>  socket returned by accept() is a blocking socket but returns the
>  O_NONBLOCK flag when queried via fcntl(F_GETFL).  That is, the file
>  descriptor and the underlying socket don't agree on the blocking
>  mode.
>
>  Since MySQL determines via fcntl(F_GETFL) that the socket is
>  non-blocking, it expects the first read() in my_real_read to not
>  block, so it doesn't enable the timeout alarm.  However, the read
>  does block, and thus there's no timeout alarm.  The thread kill
>  (which relies on rescheduling the timeout alarm) also does not work
>  as a consequence.

Martin

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