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Asked: 2026-05-23T03:37:47+00:00

I’m experiencing this weird problem reading data from a table called nodes. Any select

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I’m experiencing this weird problem reading data from a table called nodes. Any select query is taking forever to execute. I don’t even know if its going to return eventually but it doesn’t seem like that. It used to return quickly before. Nothing has changed as far as I know. No new records are inserted and none are deleted too. Couple of queries that I tried.

select count(1) from  nodes;

select node_id, type from nodes where node_id='abc';

node_id is a primary key in nodes table if that helps. The previous day all of select queries used to return in no time like in 0.01ms etc.

My guess is that somehow a lock is placed on the table preventing my queries from proceeding.
I appreciate if someone can let me know or give a pointer to how to find locks on a particular table in MYSQL 5.0.90-log FreeBSD.

What could be other possibilities?

Thanks a bunch.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I escalated this problem to a senior staff in our group. He figured that when mysqld tried to log, file system has become full. This is solved by stopping mysqld and creating a symbolic link to a file on a different file system that has lots of free space. started mysqld and all select queries are running without blocking.

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