Debian server doesn't free memory after backup
- by stan31337
I have production server that is running Debian 6.0.6 Squeeze
#uname -a
Linux debsrv 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 13:49:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Every day cron executes backup script as root:
#crontab -e
0 5 * * * /root/sites_backup.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
#nano /root/sites_backup.sh
#!/bin/bash
str=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S`
tar pzcf /home/backups/sites/mysite-$str.tar.gz /var/sites/mysite/public_html/www
mysqldump -u mysite -pmypass mysite | gzip -9 > /home/backups/sites/mysite-$str.sql.gz
cd /home/backups/sites/
sha512sum mysite-$str* > /home/backups/sites/mysite-$str.tar.gz.DIGESTS
cd ~
Everything works perfectly, but I notice that Munin's memory graph shows increase of cache and buffers after backup.
Then I just download backup files and delete them. After deletion Munin's memory graph returns cache and buffers to the state that was before backup.
Here's Munin graph:
Unfortunately I don't have enough rep to add image here. So here's a link:
