[Mediawiki-l] Database Deadlock Issue

[Russ Lavoy]

I am getting the following deadlock issue and it comes back minutes and sometimes hours later...

<snip>
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: 

from within function "SiteStatsUpdate::doUpdate". MySQL returned error "1213: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction
</snip>


So it seems that multiple processes are trying to edit the same table at the same time which is causing this issue...

How can this be prevented?

Thanks for the help.