multiple mysqld processes

[scottf76]

Hi,
I was just curious about the independent mysqld processes on my zimbra server.

zimbra 13206 13149 0 12:53 pts/2 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/logger/mysql/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.logger.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/logger/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/logger/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/logger/db/mysql.pid --skip-external-locking --port=7307 --socket=/opt/zimbra/logger/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 13311 13211 0 12:53 pts/2 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-external-locking --port=7306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock

Are there two dbs running or something? Not that familiar with mysql so maybe that is the problem.

thanks.

[jholder]

Hi Scott,
There are two mysqld processes that operate with Zimbra. One is the mysqld that contains user meta-data, and the other is the logger mysqld processes.
You'll notice that they use two different configuration files: my.conf, and my.logger.conf

You can learn more about them in the wiki:
Logger - ZimbraWiki
and
http://www.zimbra.com/docs/os/latest...ring.11.1.html

Good luck,

john