Re: mysqld memory usage

2009-02-02 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Baron Schwartz : > So I assume you have a terabyte of RAM in the server, since you didn't > say... OMG, it's using 143GB of RAM when it's idle? Wow.. > > :-) You need to provide some more details here. I can't judge > whether there is any issue at all. Sorry. My VPS has 144 MB of RAM so

Re: mysqld memory usage

2009-02-02 Thread Baron Schwartz
So I assume you have a terabyte of RAM in the server, since you didn't say... OMG, it's using 143GB of RAM when it's idle? Wow.. :-) You need to provide some more details here. I can't judge whether there is any issue at all. Baron On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > H

Re: mysqld memory usage

2009-02-02 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth wult...@gmail.com: > Through your conf file(s) you have told MySQL how much memory it may > consume. As long as the server does not go beyond what it is told it > may consume it is not doing anything wrong. Thanks. I'll have a look in the conf file. At the moment it's running as it came ou

Re: mysqld memory usage

2009-02-02 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Walter Heck : > You could bring it down, but the real question is if you really want > to do that? Making the buffers and caches smaller will reduce the > memory used, but it also reduces performance. Noted. > Could you tell us what you are hoping to use MySQL for and why you > wanna bring

Re: mysqld memory usage

2009-02-01 Thread Walter Heck
You could bring it down, but the real question is if you really want to do that? Making the buffers and caches smaller will reduce the memory used, but it also reduces performance. Could you tell us what you are hoping to use MySQL for and why you wanna bring the memory usage down? Walter OlinDa