MYSQYL on webmin is creating massive number of binlog files. The binlogs are eating up my desk space by the hour with an average of 500 MB each hour. I have a wordpress website install with less than 700 pageviews a day.
I havent updated any of the content on the website for the past 3 weeks.
Any idea how can I control the number of binlog files created to set it up daily instead of every 10 minutes!
MySQL is not “on Webmin”. Webmin provides a management UI for MySQL. The database is provided by your OS. In short, this is a MySQL question, not a Webmin question (even in Virtualmin, we do not alter the database configuration in any way that would impact this).
Googling turns up this seemingly reasonable discussion:
