ChipsPlanetScale3 months ago
High memory usage in Postgres is good, actually
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High memory usage in Postgres is a sign of a healthy system, not a problem. Postgres caches data in RAM to avoid slower disk reads, and the PlanetScale dashboard shows memory for the entire node. Sustained high CPU is a problem, but high memory alone does not degrade performance.
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