Why Is Used Memory Greater Than Available Memory?

Updated on 2022-09-15 GMT+08:00

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For single-node and master/standby DCS instances, the used instance memory is measured by the Redis-server process. For cluster DCS instances, the used cluster memory is the sum of used memory of all shards in the cluster.

Due to the internal implementation of the open-source redis-server, the used instance memory is normally slightly higher than the available instance memory.

Redis allocates memory using zmalloc. It does not check whether used_memory exceeds max_memory every time the memory is allocated. Instead, it checks whether the current used_memory exceeds max_memory at the beginning of a periodic task or command processing. If used_memory exceeds max_memory, eviction is triggered. Therefore, the restrictions of the max_memory policy are not implemented in real time or rigidly. A case in which the used_memory is greater than the max_memory may occur occasionally.

Parent topic: Monitoring and Alarm

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