Problem An instance of MySQL 5.6.20 running (mostly just) a database with InnoDB tables is exhibiting occasional stalls for all update operations for the duration of 1-4 minutes with all INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE queries remaining in "Query end" state. This obviously is most unfortunate. The MySQL slow query log is logging even the most trivial queries with insane query times, hundreds of them wit
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