About too many mysql binary logs (12gb)

Are you backing up the database? Binary logs also serve to keep a record of what's changed since the last backup so you can do a point in time recovery between backups.

mysqldump can be called to backup the db with options –flush-logs and --delete-master-logs so it prunes back the logs.

If you don't need that, turn the binary logging off in the cnf file by commenting out the log_bin setting

Thanks for the advices vickd!

Will do the backup thing I guess! it was a thing to do… it is time now :)

You can also set up expirelogsdays to clean out logs for you

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/ … _logs_days">http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvarexpirelogs_days