> > I have apache2 preforking and another important daemon preforking, and > > after looking at my top process list, I'm wondering if I can get > > mysqld preforking. It looks like there's only one mysqld process > > running and it's working hard. > > I rather think it is threading... At least on my servers, it does. With > NPTL you won't see those threads in the "normal" top view. > > In order to check if it's already multi-threaded, look at the output of > "ps -fejL" instead. > > There's probably no forking involved, so preforking doesn't make sense. > That the database consumes considerable resources is only natural with > dynamic web content serving...
I think you're right. That ps command shows multiple threads of mysqld. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list