Is this too much memory for mysql on ubuntu?
I had a question about mysql memory usage in a ubuntu server.
I have an AWS EC2 server that hosts about 20 wordpress sites, all conencted to 1 mysql instance. They aren't huge sites by any means, but they are crashing a bit because of memory usage.
I was checked out the memory usage with htop, and noticed a bunch of mysql threads that were spawned.
They mysql process is showing about 11.7% of memory usage. Is that typically too high? I recently added a swapfile to make sure the memory doesn't continue to crash, but I wanted to be sure that I have everything optimized.

free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 766 547 99 684 937
Swap: 1023 5 1018
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I had a question about mysql memory usage in a ubuntu server.
I have an AWS EC2 server that hosts about 20 wordpress sites, all conencted to 1 mysql instance. They aren't huge sites by any means, but they are crashing a bit because of memory usage.
I was checked out the memory usage with htop, and noticed a bunch of mysql threads that were spawned.
They mysql process is showing about 11.7% of memory usage. Is that typically too high? I recently added a swapfile to make sure the memory doesn't continue to crash, but I wanted to be sure that I have everything optimized.

free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 766 547 99 684 937
Swap: 1023 5 1018
Thanks
Brendan
server apache2 mysql ram amazon-ec2
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I had a question about mysql memory usage in a ubuntu server.
I have an AWS EC2 server that hosts about 20 wordpress sites, all conencted to 1 mysql instance. They aren't huge sites by any means, but they are crashing a bit because of memory usage.
I was checked out the memory usage with htop, and noticed a bunch of mysql threads that were spawned.
They mysql process is showing about 11.7% of memory usage. Is that typically too high? I recently added a swapfile to make sure the memory doesn't continue to crash, but I wanted to be sure that I have everything optimized.

free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 766 547 99 684 937
Swap: 1023 5 1018
Thanks
Brendan
server apache2 mysql ram amazon-ec2
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I had a question about mysql memory usage in a ubuntu server.
I have an AWS EC2 server that hosts about 20 wordpress sites, all conencted to 1 mysql instance. They aren't huge sites by any means, but they are crashing a bit because of memory usage.
I was checked out the memory usage with htop, and noticed a bunch of mysql threads that were spawned.
They mysql process is showing about 11.7% of memory usage. Is that typically too high? I recently added a swapfile to make sure the memory doesn't continue to crash, but I wanted to be sure that I have everything optimized.

free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1998 766 547 99 684 937
Swap: 1023 5 1018
Thanks
Brendan
server apache2 mysql ram amazon-ec2
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