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Posted on MySQL Ninjas | August 2026
Every DBA has been there. An alert fires. You SSH into the box, run free -h, and see MySQL consuming far more RAM than you configured. You double-check innodb_buffer_pool_size. It's set correctly. So where is the memory going?
This is the story of debugging exactly t...