Quoth wult...@gmail.com: > Through your conf file(s) you have told MySQL how much memory it may > consume. As long as the server does not go beyond what it is told it > may consume it is not doing anything wrong.
Thanks. I'll have a look in the conf file. At the moment it's running as it came out of the box. > The server will not return all memory when idle because various things > will be held in several caches. Start hacking your configuration file > if you wish to decrease idle consumption. Noted. > Also, 5.0 is very broad. Somerhing like "5.0.67 on 64 bit intel" is > way more informitive. Most people have not migrated to 5.1 yet, and > many people are using versions older than 5.0 . Fair enough. It's 5.0.51a-21 on 32 bit Intel Xeon. Sebastian -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org