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Memory Usage Excessive
Posted by: Bill Willits
Date: July 26, 2006 12:16AM

I am using 64bit Linux with 32Gb Ram with mysql v5.0.19. When I create and load Memory tables of about 2Gb each, the size of memory used by the mysqld process increases as expected. Here are the issues I am having.

1) The rate of growth of the memory used by mysqld does not seem to be in line with the size reported for the table(s) (data_length, index_length). The mysqld process grows at about double the rate of the memory table growth.

2) When I drop the memory tables, the memory used by mysqld does not reduce. This means that as I drop and recreate memory tables, the memory used on the server continues to grow, eventually using up all available memory and causing the server to crash.

Is there a fix for this behaviour? I need to rebuild my memory tables on a daily basis, and it invalidates the usefulness of the Memory engine if the memory cannot be reclaimed and reused.

Any help is much appreciated.
Bill Willits

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