Earlier I told you all about the mysqld problem I had with my dual-athlon server. Well, more hunting and I find this: 6:26pm up 4:55, 1 user, load average: 3.05, 28.62, 26.85 106 processes: 103 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 28.4% user, 4.3% system, 0.0% nice, 66.2% idle CPU1 states: 79.3% user, 1.3% system, 0.0% nice, 18.2% idle Mem: 1026964K av, 699636K used, 327328K free, 56K shrd, 67576K buff Swap: 2048248K av, 17980K used, 2030268K free 463444K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 24424 mysql 18 0 6116 6116 2196 R 99.9 0.5 4:05 mysqld 19915 apache 8 0 7316 6280 3976 S 0.5 0.6 0:02 httpd 25881 root 11 0 1124 1124 840 R 0.5 0.1 0:00 top 888 apache 9 0 6476 5028 2812 S 0.3 0.4 0:36 httpd 20001 apache 9 0 7460 6424 3972 S 0.3 0.6 0:03 httpd 20276 apache 9 0 7264 6232 3976 S 0.3 0.6 0:02 httpd 24316 apache 8 0 5500 4460 3860 S 0.3 0.4 0:00 httpd 24371 apache 8 0 6072 5032 3900 S 0.3 0.4 0:00 httpd 24441 apache 9 0 5440 4400 3844 S 0.3 0.4 0:00 httpd 24458 apache 8 0 5868 4828 3852 S 0.3 0.4 0:00 httpd 24490 apache 8 0 5496 4456 3852 S 0.3 0.4 0:00 httpd 24459 apache 8 0 5520 4456 3856 S 0.1 0.4 0:00 httpd 24484 apache 8 0 5784 4672 3832 S 0.1 0.4 0:00 httpd 24502 apache 8 0 5496 4432 3860 S 0.1 0.4 0:00 httpd This is after a mysqld restart -- It restarted, but didn't work because this single mysqld process wouldn't die. I even tried to kill it "kill 24424" and it still wouldn't go away -- not letting me restart mysqld. What is going on here? Ryan Shrout Owner - Amdmb.com http://www.amdmb.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]