Each one of those is a thread, not a server instance. I assume you're using Linux, since linux shows separate threads as processes.
j----- k----- On Saturday 10 April 2004 06:48 pm, Emmett Bishop said something like: > Howdy all, > > I am having trouble configuring my server parameters > with my.cnf because there seems to be several mysql > server instances (mysqld processes) running on my > linux box. What I would like to do is bump up the > innodb_buffer_pool_size on the server to 512M (the box > has 3GB of RAM). The problem is that there seem to be > several instances of mysql server running concurrently > on the box. Each one of them allocates 512M for the > buffer pool and the box grinds to a halt, completely > out of RAM to do anything! > > I've included a snippet of the top command display (I > hope that you can read it easily). -- Joshua J. Kugler Fairbanks, Alaska Computer Consultant--Systems Designer .--- --- ... .... ..- .- -.- ..- --. .-.. . .-. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#:13706295 Every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, that Jesus Christ is LORD -- Count on it! -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
