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System Memory vs Typesense Memory Usage in Cluster Overview

TLDR Andrew asked about System vs Typesense memory usage. Jason explained the difference between the two and warned about issues with swap usage.

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Nov 23, 2022 (11 months ago)
Andrew
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Andrew
08:44 PM
Also, what is the difference between System memory used vs Typesense memory used in the cluster overview?
Jason
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Jason
08:45 PM
System memory is the actual physical RAM used on the machine.

Typesense memory used includes both physical RAM and also any swap space used
08:46
Jason
08:46 PM
Ideally, you don’t want any swap to be used… because swap is disk-spaced and that will slow down searches / writes significantly