[Eug-lug] is mySQL CPU expensive?

[Matthew Jarvis]

larry price wrote:
> What is MySQL doing? Can you tell from the logs (you should be able to
> turn on query logging if it's not on already)
> 
> Some versions of the mysql client do auto completion of table and
> column names, and that can eat a lot of resources, but only for
> interactive sessions.
> 
> 

I didn't view processes... I had started mySQL and then interactively 
similar to:

use MyDatabase;
show tables;
describe MyTable;
describe MyOtherTable;




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