how do I stop Mysqld?

[eternalmist]

Hey everyone
I have had a lot of problems since I started using Yosemite(beta & official )
My macbooks fans go crazy with just a text editor and chrome open! I have 4gigs of ram.
I also saw that there is mysqld in my activity monitor. do i need it? if not, how do i stop it?
Thanks in advance

 

[eternalmist]

anyone?

 

[NoBoMac]

I'd do a clean install. I might be mistaken, but, MySQL does not come with Yosemite. So, either you have a Mac you bought from someone else and who knows what is also installed on it, or you downloaded from a torrent site, which might contain malware, which brings us back to who knows what else is installed on there and what it's doing.

Some nice instructions for a clean install:

http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/18/clean-install-os-x-yosemite/

 

[eternalmist]

I'd do a clean install. I might be mistaken, but, MySQL does not come with Yosemite. So, either you have a Mac you bought from someone else and who knows what is also installed on it, or you downloaded from a torrent site, which might contain malware, which brings us back to who knows what else is installed on there and what it's doing.

Some nice instructions for a clean install:

http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/18/clean-install-os-x-yosemite/

I probably installed it when i installed mamp.
i will do a fresh install tonight.
thanks

 

[NoBoMac]

To "uninstall" MAMP, you only have to delete the MAMP directory and everything returns to the original state (MAMP does not alter anything on the "normal" OS X).

http://www.mamp.info/en/documentation/

So, maybe don't have to do a clean install.

And lesson learned: know what that piece of software one is putting on their machine actually does, so, you might be able to back out.