kev writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm very new to MySQL, just learning at the moment.
> I've tried shutting mysql down with mysqladmin shutdown, it gave no
> error messages, but still this process remains:
>
> root 31167 0.0 0.6 3144 1248 pts/1 SN 11:37 0:00
> /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql
> --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/var --skip-locking
>
>
> Why has one process remained? Should I kill -9 it?
>
> thanks,
>
> - Kev
Hi!
Yes of course kill it. kill -HUP should be enough.
More important thing is to make MySQL more stable on your system.
You did not say what your OS is, but based on the output it might be
Solaris. If it is SPARC , please try a binary from MySQL pages.
Regards,
Sinisa
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