Mark Haney wrote:
On 11/04/2017 10:05 AM, hw wrote:
Hi,
is this ok for a database server, or do I need to turn the memory allowance
down? The machine has 48GB and mariadb is allowed about 40. The
machine is a dedicated database server.
Mysql seems to go up to what top says is virtually allocated under some
circumstances; I don´t know what mariadb does. I don´t want anything
get killed because memory runs out. Swap should prevent that anyway,
but perhaps I went a bit higher than I should?
Usual advice is to use 80%, and there are probably reasons for that.
Perhaps it´s better to allow for more disk cache?
KiB Mem : 49449424 total, 291772 free, 45891836 used, 3265816 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16742928 free, 34284 used. 2985816 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4138 mysql 20 0 48.908g 0.042t 14064 S 0.0 91.8 111:23.17 mysqld
What exactly do you mean by 'memory allowance'? That's a pretty open 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.
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.
We can take this offlist if you like, I'll be happy to help you take a look at the configs and offer suggestions.
Thanks, I´ll send you the current config :)
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