Doing a mysql dump causes swapping issues

Posted by DFischer on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by DFischer
Published on 2010-02-03T11:32:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 12:43 UTC
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I do a mysqldump manually every night.

I just noticed that after it is done and I try to access the website it is very slow. After I take a look at the free -mh I notice that the server is now swapping when it otherwise wasn't before the mysqldump.

What am I to do in this case? Just restart the server every time I backup? That doesn't seem very effective.

My database file raw is 1.1gb after the dump.

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