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High memory usage in Influxdb

Jon Neverland on March 11, 2018

I recently moved my various services from a bare metal server at Hetzner to their new cloud and a couple of different VPSes, which saves me quite...
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Adrian B.G.

You can also limit the container memory usage when you start it, but I don't know what it will happen if Influx does not check/clean its memory before reaching 100%.

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Jon Neverland

Yeah for sure! The retention policy made more sense in this case, after looking into what was the cause. Also not sure what would happen if a memory limit was reached, to me that solution kinda feels like a last resort thing.