We are seeing some behavior in our production 5.5.35-rel33.0.611 server that is forcing us to restart the server every few weeks to free up memory. There may be a slow memory leak somewhere. I took an innodb status snapshot several weeks apart to see what was happening. I see the variable adaptive …

5.5.35 memory size continually increasing

jth October 14, 2014, 11:38pm 3

When we upgraded from 5.5 to 5.6 this memory leak was fixed.

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