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How Can I Calculate the Memory Usage of an RDS DB Instance?

Click the target RDS DB instance. On the Advanced O&M page, you can view the memory usage of the DB instance.

Figure 1 Instance monitoring

The formula for calculating the memory usage is as follows:

Memory usage = (Total memory – (Available memory + Buffer memory + Cache memory))/Total memory

You can run cat /proc/meminfo to view the total memory, available memory, buffer memory, and cache memory.