[Eug-lug] is mySQL CPU expensive?

[Matthew Jarvis]

Yesterday I was doing some followup work on a box and fired up mySQL to 
look over some data. I didn't complete my work so left it there overnight...

This morning I noticed CPU loads on average much higher than I am used 
to seeing...

After shaking the rubber chicken, restarting Cold Fusion (our usual 
first attempt) then apache (our second), I quit our of mySQL and things 
mellowed out quickly to much more normal (and usable) levels...

I just went in to do some more mySQL stuff, nothing fancy, just 
describing such-and-such tables, noticed the CPU load ramping up... quit 
out of mySQL and it levels back off...

I never would have guessed mySQL was so demanding...

Anyone else experience this?

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Matthew S. Jarvis
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