Understanding Memory Usage in Typesense Migration
TLDR Bryan asked about the relationship of System Memory and Typesense Memory Used in their cluster dashboard. Jason clarified that Typesense Memory involves RAM and potential swap space used by Typesense.
1Jul 05, 2022 (14 months ago)
Bryan
03:53 PMWe are starting to migrate some more of our Algolia indexes to Typesense and I am trying to determine if the
Typesense Memory Used in our cluster dashboard is part of the System Memory Used .In other words is the total memory used
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System Memory Used2.
System Memory Used + Typesense Memory UsedI probably am missing this info in the docs so thanks for the assistance.
Jason
04:16 PMTypesense Memory Used is
RAM used by Typesense + Any potential swap space used by Typesense.Ideally you don't want any swap to be used for consistent performance. Swap is only configured for safety purposes
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