What is the memory being used for? Linux aggressively caches data, so if most of the memory is showing up as 'cached' or 'buffered', then the high memory usage is caused the system's normal response to lots of database and disk activity. It's trying to keep as much data in RAM as possible. This is a good thing. A well-tuned loaded Linux system will frequently have only 10% of memory free at any given time.
james montebello On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Joe Bifano wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a seperate linux server with just mysql running on it. But there are > alot of other things that I may need to take off. Anyway yesterday I > noticed after running TOP that the memory usage was real high. I did a > shutdown and checked it after the reboot and the memory usage was way down. > Is there something I am doing wrong in mysql that would create such a high > memory useage. Or should I be looking at the red hat list to see if it is > something else. > > Joe > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
