Question

I am running MySQL on an Amazon Linux AMI. There is nothing connected to it. There are no connections and no other applications running that use MySQL. It is completely idle, but yet, top is reporting that mysql is using 62% of the CPU? Why is this happening and how do I fix it?

Cpu(s):  0.2%us,  0.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 97.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  1.7%st
Mem:   1738504k total,   390708k used,  1347796k free,    56888k buffers
Swap:   917500k total,        0k used,   917500k free,   229804k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2959 mysql     20   0  466m  39m 5244 S 62.2  2.3   4:00.67 mysqld
    1 root      20   0 19252 1504 1212 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.20 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd

There are no connections…

mysql> show processlist;
+----+------+-----------+------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host      | db   | Command | Time | State | Info             |
+----+------+-----------+------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
|  5 | root | localhost | NULL | Query   |    0 | NULL  | show processlist |
+----+------+-----------+------+---------+------+-------+------------------+

UPDATE:
My issue was definitely related to the Lead Second bug. Kudos to nico-ekito. Thanks!

Answer 1

Closing out this question. My issue was indeed related to the Leap Second fiasco.