From: Todd Lyons Date: July 16 2009 9:41pm Subject: Re: Slave log files going nuts... List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/218223 Message-Id: <48b1344b0907161441k4bb68be3gdf52e1df0679fdc1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Gary Smith wrote: > I have a new slave I setup against a new master server. =A0The master ser= ver has 4 log files in it, the most current being updated on the 16th. =A0T= he slave server on the other hand has several files, many which seem to be = blank. =A0This slave is set to slave the master and act as a master for dow= nstream slaves. =A0Note, there is no master/master on this configuration, e= ven though the master itself could do it. > > Any ideas? Something is doing several 'mysqladmin refresh' or a related command, all sequentially in a row in short order. Look at your cron jobs that start or end around the time that all those "empty" binlogs are being created. --=20 Regards... Todd