Why is mysqld making 5 instances of itself?

KraziKid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 128

All of a sudden today, I restart mysql, and now it is making 5 instances of itself. It never did this before, and I didn't modify any settings. Does anyone know why?

EDIT: What is going on??? I just noticed the same thing happening with BIND. I really need help, I have limited resources on this computer.

marshall_j · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 1:08 am Post subject:

I'm pretty sure that Linux will show each thread as a seperate process.
So there is only 1 instance of mysql but it has 5 threads running. The memory usage beside each 1 is shared also so it's not as bad as it seems.

Zombie[BRAAAINS] · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 62

Most likely the reason you didn't see it before is that a new version of procps has come out in the last week or so. I believe top was also replaced.
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