This is an artifact of Linux's thread implementation. man 2 clone
Also it's not using -that- much memory. Note the SHARE (for memory shared between processes) column. It's not pretty, but it's totally harmless. NOTE: There's always -some- weirdness that goes on with threads implementations between different systems. On Linux, this is it. -M On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:51:49AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > I have 38 mysqld processes running in one single machine, is it normal? > > 11:48:43 up 49 days, 15:11, 34 users, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.00 > 275 processes: 265 sleeping, 1 running, 9 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 3.2% user, 4.3% system, 0.0% nice, 92.5% idle > Mem: 900464K total, 840808K used, 59656K free, 277532K buffers > Swap: 498004K total, 327808K used, 170196K free, 221132K cached > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 31277 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:04 mysqld > 31279 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:07 mysqld > 31280 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:00 mysqld > 31281 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:00 mysqld > 31282 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:00 mysqld > 31283 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:00 mysqld > 31284 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:00 mysqld > 31285 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:12 mysqld > 31286 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:02 mysqld > 31287 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:01 mysqld > 31288 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:00 mysqld > 31738 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 4:11 mysqld > 7110 mysql 10 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.5 3.5 6:22 mysqld > 12137 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:59 mysqld > 16802 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:02 mysqld > 16841 mysql 9 0 300M 30M 3004 S 0.0 3.5 0:02 mysqld > > > > It seems mysqld has used all of my memory. > > Any idea? > -- > Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatezplay.gpg > > -- > Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > -- Michael Bacarella | Netgraft Corporation | 545 Eighth Ave #401 Systems Analysis | New York, NY 10018 Technical Support | 212 946-1038 | 917 670-6982 Managed Services | [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
