Not from what I've seen with MySQL e.g.All of this, for example, does not happen on other systems, even UNIX, and they don't lead to catastrophic crashes like on FreeBSD

Mysql high memory usage and using swap
I have a 1.6GB database that adds about 200MB of size every month. I have a 12GB RAM(shared with apache, mysql and os), mysql always uses swap that i need to restart the service once it reached the...

The Impact of Swapping on MySQL Performance
In this blog, I'll look at the impact of swapping on MySQL performance.


Swap usage won't decrease
We have a 5 DB nodes Galera Cluster in Production (MariaDB 10.0). About a week ago a DB import was performed over an existing DB (Its size 30G) and during this process, all DB...


mysqld crashing almost every hour - mysqld invoked oom-killer
I am running wordpress on a centOS digital ocean droplet my mysql keeps crashing almost every hour -- with an out of memory error manually restarting mysqld brings it back up via sudo service mysqld

Mysql memory usage growing until OOM and system kills / restarts
I have MySQL 5.7.27 under Ubuntu 16.04.4, 64 bit, 4GB RAM and SSDs (it's a virtual machine). I am observing resident memory growth in mysqld until no more resources are available and the OS kills /