Matt,

I've attached the my.cnf file. You may be right about the 3G. 

"ps auxw | grep /usr/sbin/mysqld" :
mysql    10995  0.1  8.7 7086136 716240 ?      Ssl  17:44   0:03 /usr/sbin/mysqld
root     15235  0.0  0.0   7684   844 pts/2    S+   18:22   0:00 grep --color=auto /usr/sbin/mysqld

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
From: Vimal Shah <vimals@sokikom.com>
> This led to the discovery that 32-bit version of Ubuntu will not allow
> MySQL to use any more that 2GB.

This seems odd, since a single process on 32bit should be able to malloc()
3G.

> 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04, I am *still unable to get to the box to use all the
> memory*.  I feel that the DB server should be using more RAM. Can someone
> point out the flaws in my process or

What's your my.cnf look like?  If there isn't one, what's the text you get
back from "ps auxw | grep /usr/sbin/mysqld" ?  The defaults for the innodb
buffer pool/key buffer/sort buffer and all those things are probably smaller
than they should be for a machine that's got 8G and is a dedicated DB box.

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