Several of my colleagues and I have recently upgraded from MySQL 5.5 to MySQL 5.6 using homebrew on our Macs to test locally before upgrading our servers. Since this upgrad
What I found worked, was setting table_open_cache to a value no higher than 1000
table_open_cache
table_open_cache=1000
I found this on the bug page, very last comment https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=71960