Jim can you verify the process is quiesced from MySQL (master) mysql>SHOW PROCESSLIST
? Martin ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note This message is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we kindly ask you to please inform the sender. Any unauthorised dissemination or copying hereof is prohibited. This message serves for information purposes only and shall not have any legally binding effect. Given that e-mails can easily be subject to manipulation, we can not accept any liability for the content provided. > Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:57:11 -0500 > Subject: Re: why is this happening? > From: jlyons4...@gmail.com > To: claudio.na...@gmail.com > CC: mysql@lists.mysql.com > > No, there's only one mysqld process running. Thanks, tho. > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Claudio Nanni <claudio.na...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > I am afraid you have two mysql instances up on the same host. > > > > ps -ef | grep mysql ? > > > > > > Claudio > > > > > > Jim Lyons wrote: > > > >> I have a rather odd problem with a replication slave. > >> > >> The slave has been down for a number of hours. Of course, both io and sql > >> threads are stopped - from SHOW SLAVE STATUS: > >> > >> Slave_IO_Running: No > >> Slave_SQL_Running: No > >> > >> > >> However, the relay logs are still being written to. I was under the > >> impression that the slave's io thread was what brought data from the > >> master's bin log to the slave's relay log. With the io thread stopped, > >> the > >> relay logs should stop filling up - right? Mine are definitely filling > >> up. > >> > >> > >> Does anyonee know why the relay logs keep filling up after replication has > >> broken? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > -- > Jim Lyons > Web developer / Database administrator > http://www.weblyons.com _________________________________________________________________ HotmailĀ® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009