On Tuesday 22 May 2001 11:29 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > No. Your memory's going to be released. But your files might be > scrambled. I would *not* 'kill -9' my mysqld server. I second this one from personal experience! Very bad... lucky I did it before I actually started working with the thing, because it led to a reinstall. Twice! -- - David Nusinow krmt1984@ucla.edu