From: Rick James Date: October 17 2012 4:15pm Subject: RE: Odd Behavior During Replication Start-Up List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/228443 Message-Id: <2E7DD7ADE53B044C8C8BCD9C5829E1EB148D27C1B2@SP2-EX07VS01.ds.corp.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > as far as i understodd the dameon was NOT down [Rick James] Then what about all the stuff cached in RAM waiting and not ye= t written to disk?