threads/135673: databases/mysql50-server - MySQL query lock-ups on 7.2-RELEASE amd64

[Conor McDermottroe]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:53:36PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote:
> My last findings were revealing a sudden zeroing of userland
> structures where a lock was embedded, leaving some waiters on such
> locks stuck in the kernel.
> I think this is a MySQL bug and I feel to suggest you to upgrade to
> newest MySQL versions.

I'll experiment with MySQL 5.1 on our new FreeBSD 8.0 machine and see
if I can trigger the bug on that.

Is there anything specific I can do to gather information for you when
I'm testing that?

-Conor