MySQL Sleeping..load issues

[DigiCrime]

Question on MySQL sleeping..

25803 mysql 9 0 454M 422M 11728 S 0.1 20.9 36:53 0 mysqld
25817 mysql 9 0 454M 422M 11728 S 0.1 20.9 44:34 2 mysqld
19169 mysql 9 0 454M 422M 11728 S 0.1 20.9 42:36 0 mysqld

Even though its in sleep mode but the CPU usage is up a little bit does thos not cause the load to rise even though mysql isnt doing anything at the moment?

What causes so many of them? And what causes it to stay stuck in sleep mode for so long.

Lastly, is it normal to have a few or several running but nothing in the process list except exim stats at the time I looked at top.

 

[ramprage]

Is there lots of activity if you try:
mysqladmin processlist from shell?

 

[DigiCrime]

Nope... heres right now top sorted by time this is a dual xeon with 2 gigs of ram with /home on a scsi drive btw

top
 13:37:32  up 7 days,  2:22,  1 user,  load average: 5.74, 5.36, 5.93
215 processes: 205 sleeping, 5 running, 3 zombie, 2 stopped
CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
           total   79.8%    0.1%   19.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%    0.9%
           cpu00   69.9%    0.1%   29.2%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%    0.6%
           cpu01   83.4%    0.0%   14.6%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%    1.8%
           cpu02   84.5%    0.1%   14.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%    1.2%
           cpu03   81.5%    0.1%   18.1%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%    0.1%
Mem:  2067468k av, 1996888k used,   70580k free,       0k shrd,  163488k buff
       515384k active,             698940k inactive
Swap: 4096532k av,  149424k used, 3947108k free                  998388k cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
18368 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  57:02   2 mysqld
10803 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     1.4 20.9  54:36   2 mysqld
22817 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  53:20   0 mysqld
18259 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  52:39   0 mysqld
 9705 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  51:46   0 mysqld
 9817 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  50:36   3 mysqld
18009 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  50:12   3 mysqld
 9814 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  49:27   3 mysqld
22813 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  49:22   1 mysqld
12853 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  49:01   1 mysqld
12801 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  49:00   0 mysqld
22818 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  48:56   1 mysqld
 9874 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  48:35   0 mysqld
 1733 root      19  19 63200  27M 27232 S N   0.0  1.3  48:31   2 cpanellogd
19038 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  48:15   1 mysqld
 9704 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  47:41   0 mysqld
 9660 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  47:12   3 mysqld
 9858 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  46:43   2 mysqld
12852 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  46:31   2 mysqld
25808 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  45:55   2 mysqld
19039 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  45:50   0 mysqld
20092 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  45:37   1 mysqld
25797 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  45:37   2 mysqld
25817 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  45:12   2 mysqld
 9659 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  45:09   3 mysqld
22822 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  45:06   0 mysqld
31526 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  44:31   0 mysqld
25809 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  43:55   3 mysqld
19168 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  43:46   2 mysqld
19169 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  43:17   1 mysqld
25717 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  43:10   3 mysqld
25812 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  42:53   1 mysqld
25711 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  42:41   2 mysqld
25713 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.2 20.9  42:16   2 mysqld
 9734 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  42:10   1 mysqld
19171 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  42:00   1 mysqld
25810 mysql      9   0  454M 423M 11996 S     0.0 20.9  41:48   2 mysqld

mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1140778 to server version: 4.1.19-standard

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST;
+---------+------------------+-----------+------------------+---------+------+-------+-----------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info |
+---------+------------------+-----------+------------------+---------+------+-------+-----------------------+
| 1140225 | eximstats | localhost | eximstats | Sleep | 2 | | NULL |
| 1140778 | root | localhost | NULL | Query | 0 | NULL | SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST |
| 1140792 | salmoncr_vforums | localhost | salmoncr_vforums | Sleep | 0 | | NULL |
+---------+------------------+-----------+------------------+---------+------+-------+-----------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)


STATUS;
--------------
mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.19, for pc-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 4.3

Connection id: 1140778
Current database:
Current user: [email protected]
SSL: Not in use
Current pager: stdout
Using outfile: ''
Using delimiter: ;
Server version: 4.1.19-standard
Protocol version: 10
Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket
Server characterset: latin1
Db characterset: latin1
Client characterset: latin1
Conn. characterset: latin1
UNIX socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime: 7 days 2 hours 3 min 57 sec

Threads: 4 Questions: 44725202 Slow queries: 1611 Opens: 80139 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 2000 Queries per second avg: 73.052

 

[DigiCrime]

No one have any ideas??

 

[RandyO]

the offending user may have the "persistant connections" enabled in their config file. This setting I believe is more suited to remote db servers (saves the connection process every query). On a local box you end up with a bunch of sleeping process'

 

[DigiCrime]

that may not be to fun to track down I know vbulletin has this type of setting ive already checked all the vb accounts on the server none have this enabled