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[sean at chittenden.org (Sean Chittenden)]

> Mysql running on an IBM dopuble cpu server freebsd 5.2.1 RELEASE
> whenever I said that TOP

This is a known issue with MySQL where it eats itself alive.  You'll 
have to kill -9 it and repair your tables.  I believe you'll be able to 
prevent this by running with FreeBSD 5.3 (or a slightly more recent 
version of pthreads) or recompiling MySQL with linuxthreads.  -sc

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Sean Chittenden
PostgreSQL++