[BlueOnyx:22588] Re: Help please with mysqld

[Colin Jack]

Thanks for your response Chris,
 
> Unfortunately that's not a lot to go on.   But there are some basics
> that you can check that ought to help you get pointed in the right direction.  If
> your MySQL is overrunning the server then you should look into a few things.
> 
> 1. Is one particular database the cause of this?
> 2. If so, then is it because the database has problems, or the site it's
> associated with is getting a lot of traffic?
> 3. Is the database optimized?  Does that help?
> 4. Is the traffic load on the site abnormal?  Is the traffic legit?

I have posted an update ... I checked mysql processlist and it seemed to be AVSpam ...
Flushed Bayes database and it settled down.
Also increased max-children because that was showing errors in the log
At the moment seems to have settled down

All the best

Colin