Re: [tlug] MySQL behaving strangely

[Francois Cartegnie <fcartegnie@example.com>]

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> $ pkill -9 mysqld

Why doing so wild things ? :)
The main process of mysql is mysql_manager
and on previous versions it was safe_mysqld .
Look for them, or locate the pid in the mysql.pid file and kill it with a 
simple kill, all childs should be terminated in few seconds.