On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Juergen Gotteswinter <jg at internetx.de> wrote: > found the problem... our customer created a cronjob which dumped the mysql > db every 2 hours. after mysqldump starts, a few secs later nginx was in > trouble. Try InnoDB with mysqldump --single-transaction It would NOT lock tables. -- Ren Xiaolei