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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9505&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1&nbsp; 0 10:19 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/vottrt1.vistar.ca.pid
<br>mysql&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9698&nbsp; 9505&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 9698&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9700&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9701&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9702&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9703&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9704&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9705&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9706&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9707&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9709&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9710&nbsp; 9699&nbsp; 0 11:42 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9804&nbsp; 9763&nbsp; 0 11:53 pts/1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 00:00:00 grep mysql<br>