6 thoughts on - Mariadb Server Memory Usage

• Disk cache is not recommended for databases servers.

  it’ll slow down the performance. More ram equals more performance.

  This link help me understand memory usage on linux.

  https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

  Basically you need yo worry about

  free memory is close to 0
  used memory is close to total available memory (or “free + buffers/cache”) has enough room (let’s say,
  20%+ of total)
  swap used does not change Warning signs of a genuine low memory situation that you may want to look into:

  available memory (or “free + buffers/cache”) is close to zero swap used increases or fluctuates dmesg | grep oom-killer shows the OutOfMemory-killer at work

  You can monitory swap with “vmsat 1”

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• question.  It all depends on your databases and usage.  The typical
  ‘best practices’ answer is to set the buffer pool to ~75-80% of RAM if the total size of all your DBs exceeds the total amount of RAM on the server.  The idea being that you want to have as much (or all) of the databases in RAM as that’s much faster than going to disk for it. If the total size of your DBs is less than the total RAM, I typically allocate enough to take all DBs into RAM  +10-20% for projected growth.  You haven’t mentioned the size of the DB(s) you’re running on the server, nor what your usage pattern might be (heavy reads, heavy writes or a balance of the two).  You also didn’t post the config file either.  I
  know this is a bit OT, but config files are very helpful for any issue. 
  Just looking at the RAM usage you posted, I would be a bit worried by the fact you only have ~300MB of ‘free’ RAM.  If the total in the cache is all buffer pool, it should be fine, but I typically don’t run a DB
  server that low on physical RAM.  Swap is fine, but much slower than RAM, even on SSDs.

  We can take this offlist if you like, I’ll be happy to help you take a look at the configs and offer suggestions.

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  Mark Haney Network Engineer at NeoNova
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• Mark Haney wrote:

  I mean “allowing mariadb to use some amount of memory”, which is mainly influenced by the size of the buffer pool.

  300MB? It´s almost 3GB, isn´t it? Considering that the server doesn´t do anything else, it /might/ be fine, which is I´m worrying about it.

  Of course swap is slower; it would only be there in case memory usage goes up. I´ll monitor it and will see how it goes. If I am taking a risk with setting the allowance so high, I rather turn it down.

  Thanks, I´ll send you the current config :)

• marcos valentine wrote:

  Almost 3GB available on a 48GB machine is very close to “free memory is
  0” and “used memory is close to total”, which is why I´m wondering what I can get away with :)

  This free memory can go away in less than a second. Maybe it never will, so I figured why not use as much as possible — just not too much, and this is borderline.

• It’s depends of many things. But you need to pay attention on this variables

  https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-memory-allocation/

  In my db servers i use nagios to monitor when “free” and “available” ram is less than 80% warning state and less than 5% critical.

  this is borderline.

  You can use the rule always 80% used for safe. But 20% of 46GB could be too much ram wasted.

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• marcos valentine wrote:

  Thanks, that´s an interesting page.

  It tells you to turn off hyperthreading. At some other place on the mariadb website, I´ve been reading it´s generally a good idea to leave it turned on for mariadb.

  Now which is true?

  Hmm, nagios, yes, I should look into that.

  It would be a pity to waste it. I think 128GB would be ideal, and the machine might even get that once I get to shuffle the RAM sticks around between different machines. I still wouldn´t want to waste any.