Anyway to Limit MySQL Query Execution time?

Question

Hi I\'m having issues on my server at the minute because some of the MySQL queries are taking a very long time to run, and hogging the resources on the server.

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Answer 1

I can recommend http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.1/pt-kill.html which is designed specifically for that. From man page:

pt-kill - Kill MySQL queries that match certain criteria.