Should I upgrade memory for my dedicated server?
- by mc1000
My memory usage hangs around 25% (swap is generally 1%) on my dedicated server and load is around 2-5.
My host recommended that I upgrade from 2GB of ram to 4GB so that I can increase my innodb_buffer from the default 16MB to 2GB. My innodb table size is 2GB.
My question is, given that ram usage is 25% does it make sense to upgrade ram? Queries are hanging sometimes, so I'm thinking that a bigger innodb_buffer could decrease load on the database, just not sure if I really need to upgrade my ram first.