Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of RamUsage

Timestamp:

06/24/13 21:13:27 (3 years ago)

Author:

chris

Comment:

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RamUsage

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 Key figures to consider in the above graph is the value for the amount of current committed and active RAM, in this case 8.82GB and 4.63GB and also the amount of maximum committed and active RAM, in this case 4.30GB and 5.12GB.
 
-The sawtooth pattern is caused by MySQL slowly increasing it's memory usage as more things are cached and MySQL restarts, this is made clear in the graph below which tracks the memory used by some of the key processes on the server:
+The RAM increase has made a significant amount of RAM available for caching and buffers and this has the knock on effect of speeding up the time to serve frequently accessed files to clients as they are held in RAM rather than being read from disk -- the [https://penguin.transitionnetwork.org/munin/transitionnetwork.org/puffin.transitionnetwork.org/http_loadtime.html average loadtime for pages] is now less than half it was before the additional RAM was added (12.15 milli seconds compared to 31.59 milli seconds).
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+The sawtooth pattern is caused by MySQL slowly increasing it's memory usage as more things are cached, the dramatic dips are caused when MySQL is restarted, this is made clear in the graph below which tracks the memory used by some of the key processes on the server:
 
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