MySQL db growing, why? [SOLVED]

audiodef · Last edited by audiodef on Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:29 pm; edited 1 time in total

I noticed my /var/lib/mysql dir has grown almost 70 MB in just over a week. While I run five web sites, all of which use MySQL on my server, I'm not sure this makes sense. I add content to these sites slowly, all of it text, and as of now there are only a few users on each site. I'm certainly not adding 70MB of content per week. I don't have hundreds of users adding content. I add A few KB at most in a month.

How can I find out exactly where this growth is coming from? I need to make sure this growth is nothing that shouldn't be happening.
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ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

could be the binary log causing that growth
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audiodef · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:29 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that's what it was. I put a stop to that.

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