Question
Fix mysql high cpu usage on Ubuntu running WordPress
While doing maintenance to the Ubuntu server running mysql and apache2 using these commands:
SELECT tableschema AS “Database”, sum(datalength + indexlength)/1024/1024 AS “size in MB” FROM informationschema.TABLES GROUP BY table_schema;
optimize table wpcommentmeta, wpcomments, wplinks, wpodblogs, wpoptions, wppostmeta, wpposts, wptermrelationships, wptermtaxonomy, wptermmeta, wpterms, wpusermeta, wpusers, wpyoastseolinks, wpyoastseometa;
Then I went to the “Feedback” section of WordPress to delete old feedback around 24. Select them all and clicked “send” to trash.
Usually this process is quick. But it was taking a long time.
So I restarted the server, and now, mysql is taking all the cpu usage.
using the htop I see a bunch of /usr/sbin/mysql and one in particular is using most of CPU power.
Anyway to troubleshoot and fix this problem?
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