Hi! I am running a Ubuntu 18.04 on a droplet. Droplet size is 8GB memory and 160GC disk. In the graphs page on my dashboard, the “Memory” usage is at 80%. CPU shows around 0.2%, disk shows around 2%.
The droplet hosts lost traffic website. I have mysql running and a wsgi application running (production server for django application).
When I run the TOP command, memory % is nowhere near 80%. What am I not understanding? Why are the graphs not correlating with the TOP command output?
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I believe that DO reports MemTotal - MemAvailable in the statistics. You can find these values in your system memory statistics at /proc/meminfo
MemAvailable is an estimate of memory available for applications (and does not include memory available for systems).
Your top statistics show statistics for both application and system use.
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