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Author: Vimal Shah
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Subject: Re: Tuning MySQL DB server
Matt,

I've attached the my.cnf file. You may be right about the 3G.

*"ps auxw | grep /usr/sbin/mysqld" :*
mysql    10995  0.1  8.7 7086136 716240 ?      Ssl  17:44   0:03
/usr/sbin/mysqld
root     15235  0.0  0.0   7684   844 pts/2    S+   18:22   0:00 grep
--color=auto /usr/sbin/mysqld


On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Matt Graham <>wrote:

> From: Vimal Shah <>
> > This led to the discovery that 32-bit version of Ubuntu will not allow
> > MySQL to use any more that 2GB.
>
> This seems odd, since a single process on 32bit should be able to malloc()
> 3G.
>
> > 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04, I am *still unable to get to the box to use all the
> > memory*. I feel that the DB server should be using more RAM. Can someone
> > point out the flaws in my process or
>
> What's your my.cnf look like? If there isn't one, what's the text you get
> back from "ps auxw | grep /usr/sbin/mysqld" ? The defaults for the innodb
> buffer pool/key buffer/sort buffer and all those things are probably
> smaller
> than they should be for a machine that's got 8G and is a dedicated DB box.
>
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