Ubuntu memory question after clearing cache increased used memory
I had a question about clearning the memory cache in ubuntu. I noticed my wordpress sites are going very slowly and having trouble connecting to the mysql DB. I figured I would check the memory levels since we just moved two more over to this server, to see if there was some memory issues.
I checked the memory using the free -m command.
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 562 878 103 557 1136
Swap: 0 0 0
I noticed there was a bit free and not much used, but the issues were there so I decided to clear up some memory from the cache.
echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
1
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 1355 365 103 278 355
Swap: 0 0 0
After running this some cached memory cleared out but the used memory spiked to a huge amount. Is this normal? Would this point to me needing more memory on the server since the usage rate went up so much?
Thanks for the help
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I had a question about clearning the memory cache in ubuntu. I noticed my wordpress sites are going very slowly and having trouble connecting to the mysql DB. I figured I would check the memory levels since we just moved two more over to this server, to see if there was some memory issues.
I checked the memory using the free -m command.
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 562 878 103 557 1136
Swap: 0 0 0
I noticed there was a bit free and not much used, but the issues were there so I decided to clear up some memory from the cache.
echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
1
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 1355 365 103 278 355
Swap: 0 0 0
After running this some cached memory cleared out but the used memory spiked to a huge amount. Is this normal? Would this point to me needing more memory on the server since the usage rate went up so much?
Thanks for the help
server mysql ram memory-usage
asked 8 hours ago
BrendanBrendan
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I had a question about clearning the memory cache in ubuntu. I noticed my wordpress sites are going very slowly and having trouble connecting to the mysql DB. I figured I would check the memory levels since we just moved two more over to this server, to see if there was some memory issues.
I checked the memory using the free -m command.
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 562 878 103 557 1136
Swap: 0 0 0
I noticed there was a bit free and not much used, but the issues were there so I decided to clear up some memory from the cache.
echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
1
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 1355 365 103 278 355
Swap: 0 0 0
After running this some cached memory cleared out but the used memory spiked to a huge amount. Is this normal? Would this point to me needing more memory on the server since the usage rate went up so much?
Thanks for the help
server mysql ram memory-usage
asked 8 hours ago
BrendanBrendan
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I had a question about clearning the memory cache in ubuntu. I noticed my wordpress sites are going very slowly and having trouble connecting to the mysql DB. I figured I would check the memory levels since we just moved two more over to this server, to see if there was some memory issues.
I checked the memory using the free -m command.
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 562 878 103 557 1136
Swap: 0 0 0
I noticed there was a bit free and not much used, but the issues were there so I decided to clear up some memory from the cache.
echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
1
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 1355 365 103 278 355
Swap: 0 0 0
After running this some cached memory cleared out but the used memory spiked to a huge amount. Is this normal? Would this point to me needing more memory on the server since the usage rate went up so much?
Thanks for the help
server mysql ram memory-usage
server mysql ram memory-usage
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