I would like to understand how this happened. I was running a query that would take a long time, but should not lock up any table. However, my dbs were practically down - it seems like it was being locked up by "FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK"
03:21:31 select type_id, count(*) from guid_target_infos group by type_id
02:38:11 select type_id, count(*) from guid_infos group by type_id
02:24:29 FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK
But i did not start this command. can someone tell me why it was started automatically?