Hi,

I am running mysql-4.0.12 on RH9, with 256MB. When I startup mysql, it starts 10 mysqld daemons, as well as safe_mysqld (top output below). Also each of these daemons is taking up 7% of the memory. If I try to kill the pid from the hostname.pid file, it kills all, but automatically starts up 10 more daemons. Something is running amuck and I can't seem to find it.

What is starting up all of the daemons? I have looked through the startup script and did not see anything that would startup that many daemons.

Any ideas?


PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
1440 mfitzpat 15 0 1196 1196 960 R 0.1 0.4 0:00 0 top
1399 mysql 15 0 18216 17M 1644 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 0 mysqld
1396 mysql 24 0 18216 17M 1644 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 0 mysqld
1397 mysql 15 0 18216 17M 1644 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 0 mysqld
1398 mysql 24 0 18216 17M 1644 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 0 mysqld
1391 mysql 15 0 18216 17M 1644 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 0 mysqld
1392 mysql 20 0 18216 17M 1644 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 0 mysqld
1393 mysql 25 0 18216 17M 1644 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 0 mysqld
1394 mysql 25 0 18216 17M 1644 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 0 mysqld
1395 mysql 20 0 18216 17M 1644 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 0 mysqld
1390 mysql 15 0 18216 17M 1644 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 0 mysqld
1371 root 25 0 1124 1124 968 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 0 safe_mysqld