High RAM Usage in VPS

[dilanuda1985]

Hi All,

I am having 8GB manage VPS server and its having high RAM usage ,on there 6 websites are running but IO is very low and i can see only mysql process taking much RAM around 2GB ,but i cannot find other 6GB of RAM ,Can some one guide me on this ,all those websites are PHP base 

[kedar]

Hi, 

I have also same problem with Godaddy VPS. please help me for this.

[jjbelmonte]

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@kedar wrote:

Hi, 

I have also same problem with Godaddy VPS. please help me for this.

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I hace the same problems EVERY DAY and Im very upset nobody can do anything about this... 

[JHasselbring]

What other software do you have on your server? mail server? antivirus? cPanels uses a lot of RAM too.. connect to your VPS terminal then use the TOP command to see all running processes and their respective resources.

High ram usage isn't always a bad sign though.

[JHasselbring · Accepted solution]

Also, does your sites use some type of caching like redis? A lot of caching solutions uses RAM... Even if you have a low IO, those request could have generated cache data that was stored on your RAM... Usually, that's good, that's what's RAM is supposed to do anyway.