MySQL Server Startup Script

mysqld_safe is the recommended way to start a mysqld server. It adds some safety features such as restarting the server when an error occurs and logging runtime information to an error log file. Many of the options to mysqld_safe are the same as the options to mysqld. Options unknown to mysqld_safe are passed to mysqld if they are specified on the command line, but ignored if they are specified in the [mysqld_safe] group of an option file.

Twitter's mysqld_safe supports the following options.

Format	Option File	Description
--flush-caches	flush-caches	Flush and purge buffers/caches (vm.drop_caches=3)
--numa-interleave	numa-interleave	Run mysqld with its memory interleaved on all CPUs