The following query takes hours to run and will never run as they get killed by the query killer:
Copying to tmp table on disk SELECT /* SpecialWhatLinksHere::showIndirectLinks */ page_id,page_namespace,page_title,rd_from,rd_fragment,page_is_redirect FROM (SELECT pl_from,rd_from,rd_fragment FROM `pagelinks` LEFT JOIN `redirect` ON ((rd_from = pl_from) AND rd_title = 'P248' AND (rd_interwiki = '' OR rd_interwiki IS NULL) AND rd_namespace = 120) JOIN `page` ON ((pl_from = page_id)) WHERE pl_namespace = 120 AND pl_title = 'P248' ORDER BY pl_from LIMIT 102 ) `temp_backlink_range` JOIN `page` ON ((pl_from = page_id)) ORDER BY page_id LIMIT 51
root@db1092.eqiad.wmnet[wikidatawiki]> explain SELECT /* SpecialWhatLinksHere::showIndirectLinks */ page_id,page_namespace,page_title,rd_from,rd_fragment,page_is_redirect FROM (SELECT pl_from,rd_from,rd_fragment FROM `pagelinks` LEFT JOIN `redirect` ON ((rd_from = pl_from) AND rd_title = 'P248' AND (rd_interwiki = '' OR rd_interwiki IS NULL) AND rd_namespace = 120) JOIN `page` ON ((pl_from = page_id)) WHERE pl_namespace = 120 AND pl_title = 'P248' ORDER BY pl_from LIMIT 102 ) `temp_backlink_range` JOIN `page` ON ((pl_from = page_id)) ORDER BY page_id LIMIT 51; +------+-------------+------------+--------+----------------------+----------+---------+---------------------------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +------+-------------+------------+--------+----------------------+----------+---------+---------------------------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------+ | 1 | PRIMARY | <derived2> | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 102 | Using temporary; Using filesort | | 1 | PRIMARY | page | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | temp_backlink_range.pl_from | 1 | | | 2 | DERIVED | page | index | PRIMARY | page_len | 4 | NULL | 88669406 | Using index; Using temporary; Using filesort | | 2 | DERIVED | pagelinks | eq_ref | PRIMARY,pl_namespace | PRIMARY | 265 | wikidatawiki.page.page_id,const,const | 1 | Using where; Using index | | 2 | DERIVED | redirect | eq_ref | PRIMARY,rd_ns_title | PRIMARY | 4 | wikidatawiki.page.page_id | 1 | Using where | +------+-------------+------------+--------+----------------------+----------+---------+---------------------------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------+ 5 rows in set (0.01 sec)