
Dialog will pop up that offers to set filter. We assume that mysqld.exe is already started.ġ. The purpose of the following exercise is to learn how to use procmon to trace mysqld.exe calls to the filesystem. I suggest putting procmon into some directory in the PATH environment variable. There is no installation necessary the single executable can be used after unpacking. More description can be found at https: /en-us/library/bb896645.aspx Installation Process Monitor can be directly downloaded from. It is a part of sysinternals suite developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell.

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, registry and process/thread activity. This article provides a walkthrough on using the Process Monitor on Windows, tracing file system access by mysqld.exe during the "install plugin" call.
