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are you using mysql? I thought the wordpress template comes with mariadb

I am using mysql. I did use a template ~2 months ago. Let me see if I can find it

I used this one https://railway.app/template/EP4wIt?referralCode=fKo7dw, which now looks like it uses Mariadb.

haha yeah, well I bet you can imagine why it uses mariadb now

Haha, OK makes sense. I'll migrate over to Mariadb

but we can get mysql to use a bit less base memory too

I don't think that would be necessary, let's try getting your current database to use less memory first, as that would be far easier than swapping databases

Ok that sounds good 👍

let me find it, one min

append --performance_schema=0 to the start command in the service settings, doing so dropped my idle memory of a freshly deployed mysql database from 490MB to 177MB, your experience may vary on account of your database has data in it.

on account of its name, disabling that config makes it seem like it's going to make the database perform worse, but fortunately that's not the case as that only disables metrics collections that we couldn't even really utilise on railway anyway

gotcha! thank you I'll give this a try and report back <:salute:1137099685417451530>

it worked some!

that do be some

tl;dr

• append --performance_schema=0 to MySQL's start command in its service settings

• switch to MariaDB