How to Fix High RAM Usage on a Linux Dedicated Server
Experiencing sluggish performance, unresponsive terminals, or unexpected application crashes on your MIG servers infrastructure usually points to memory exhaustion. This guide provides the exact diagnostic commands and mitigation strategies to stabilize your Linux environment and permanently resolve memory leaks, using production-safe best practices. 1. Evaluate Current Memory Availability Before taking action, you must understand how your server distributes its resources. Run the following command to get a snapshot of your system's memory: free -h Metric Description Actionable Insight Total Physical RAM installed on your MIG Server. Baseline reference for your hardware capacity. Available Memory currently free and ready for new processes. If this is consistently near zero and swap is growing, your server is struggling. Buff/Cache RAM used by the Linux ker...