Public bug reported: On a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04, MySQL eats up way too much RAM due to poor config settings out of the box. I'm suggesting maybe someone tune it for a 512MB server.
As an example, I have a 1GB AWS EC2 instance running. I installed MySQL, and did nothing beyond that. I came back about a couple hours later, and the RAM consumption (according to htop) is 656/991MB! htop shows several MySQL processes consuming 60% MEM. Again, this is for a DB process that doesn't even have any databases, and zero activity. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: mysql-server-core-5.7 5.7.12-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-28.47-generic 4.4.13 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-28-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Jul 14 07:09:40 2016 Ec2AMI: ami-b9ff39d9 Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown) Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-west-2b Ec2InstanceType: t2.micro Ec2Kernel: unavailable Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/mysqld Logs.var.log.daemon.log: MySQLConf.etc.mysql.conf.d.mysql.cnf: [mysql] MySQLConf.etc.mysql.conf.d.mysqldump.cnf: [mysqldump] quick quote-names max_allowed_packet = 16M MySQLConf.etc.mysql.mysql.conf.d.mysqld_safe_syslog.cnf: [mysqld_safe] syslog MySQLVarLibDirListing: ['auto.cnf', 'ibdata1', 'performance_schema', 'ib_logfile1', 'ib_logfile0', 'mysql', 'sys', 'debian-5.7.flag', 'ibtmp1', 'ib_buffer_pool'] ProcAttrCurrent: /usr/sbin/mysqld (enforce) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) SHELL=/bin/false SourcePackage: mysql-5.7 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: mysql-5.7 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ec2-images xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602964 Title: MySQL consumes mega amounts of RAM To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1602964/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs