on Fedora Core 3<br><br>I have about 15 mysqld processes running. They all appear to be child processes of one. Can I limit the number of child processes of MySQL?<br><br>Here is the list of processes running:<br>root      9505     1  0 10:19 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid
<br>mysql     9698  9505  0 11:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock<br>mysql     9699  9698  0 11:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
<br>mysql     9700  9699  0 11:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock<br>mysql     9701  9699  0 11:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
<br>mysql     9702  9699  0 11:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock<br>mysql     9703  9699  0 11:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
<br>mysql     9704  9699  0 11:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock<br>mysql     9705  9699  0 11:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
<br>mysql     9706  9699  0 11:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock<br>mysql     9707  9699  0 11:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
<br>mysql     9709  9699  0 11:42 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock<br>mysql     9710  9699  0 11:42 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
<br>root      9804  9763  0 11:53 pts/1    00:00:00 grep mysql<br>