Hi, I'm newbie, I have problem with INFORMATION_SCHEMA. There is mariadb-10.0 with around 100000 databases. Disks are slow, but most users have one database, a few have more than one, but it is not a big number. Queries like SHOW DATABASES or SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA bring to knees whole server. The idea to resolve it is: in find_files(...) instead of the for loop execute query: SELECT REPLACE(TABLE_SCHEMA, '\\', '') FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES WHERE PRIVILEGE_TYPE = 'SELECT'; There are databases with names with _ in them and \_ in GRANTS. This is theory, but I don't know how to do it. That's mean how to freeze the current query, how to run new query, read results, and fill files in the find_files function and resume the current query. Could you help? Or do you have ideas how to solve it? -- Witold Filipczyk