Remotely shutdown a MySQL server I have MySQL 5.0.27 running on a Linux server. It is consuming too many resources (it is running about 80 tasks loading a database). I am unable to log into the server to reduce the number of tasks because SSH, while accepting a password, will time out while requesting a new channel because of the system load.

Can I remotely send a shutdown command to the server? It is possible from another server to either use mysql or mysqladmin with a -h option or use MySQL workbench to shut the server down gracefully?

If I reboot the server I will need to repair two large tables (>200m records) which takes hours. I'd like to avoid this option.
You can send commands via ssh (that is you don't have to actually log in and run the command):

ssh user@host 'mysqladmin shutdown'