High memory usage concerns

[psytanium]

Hi,

Recently I setup a new VPS server Gen4 with GoDaddy, I was monitoring my resources usage.

The average usage of Memory was 3 to 4 GB, after I upgraded cPanel to v78.0.13 the memory usage increased to 7GB out of 8GB.

I checked the Daily Process Log:
nobody 6.5
mysql 5.2
cpanelsolr 3.8
Some user 1.8
mailman 0.9
dovenull 0.5
nydus 0.5
etc...

Those values are percentages, how can 6.5% equal 7GB ? What could be consuming the memory? I dont know if it is related to the upgrade, i'm just mentioning the timing.

Thank you

 

[psytanium]

Ah excuse me, the memory usage 7G is indicated on Godaddy server dashboard, but in WHM -> Server Information -> Current Memory Usage the results are :

total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 8008860 2083536 4272576 9544 1652748 5623668
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 8008860 2083536 4272576

I think I have 5.6 GB free, and something is wrong with GoDaddy server dashboard.

Right ?

 

[GOT]

Most likely. Or they are included cached memory usage in their calculations which is common.

 

[psytanium]

I'm wondering what will happen if I GoDaddy dashboard indicate higher than 8GB and WHM Server Information indicate lower then 8GB.

 

[GOT]

I don't think what the GD dashboard reasds is all that important, what matters is how much ram your system is actually using.

The command

free -m

Will show you your ram stats in MB.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello @psytanium,

We provide a tutorial to help explain how memory usage works on the link below:

Tutorial - Understanding Memory Usage On Linux Operating Systems

If you're seeing different results on the GoDaddy dashboard, I recommend contacting their support team to see if they can determine what's leading to the discrepancy.

Thank you.