Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} preforking mysqld?

[Grant]

> > 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
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