Directadmin's RAM usage

[LawsHosting]

Is it normal for it to use gigs of RAM? Hovers around 5Gig.

(I've compared MySQL, as it's the most used)

 

[gate2vn]

No, I don't think so. I have checked several servers, and they are from 160 to 500MB

 

[cDGo]

See my posting:

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Thread 'Directadmin service (1.702) using a lot of memory'

May 31, 2026

Since the last 2 versions, we see that the directadmin service takes a lot of memory, even over 2GB.
Anyone else expericing the same issue?
And how to find the issue?

• cDGo
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• Forum: General Technical Discussion & Troubleshooting

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No answer yet

 

[LawsHosting]

I restarted and instantly went to ~750MB, and climbing......

Here is a log snippet:

28/9/2026 22:13:11    finished task duration=24.208726ms task=action=service-watchdog
28/9/2026 22:13:11    executing task task=action=service-watchdog
28/9/2026 22:13:11    finished task duration=5.51921ms task=action=ssl&value=admin_ssl
28/9/2026 22:13:11    executing task task=action=ssl&value=admin_ssl
28/9/2026 22:12:11    finished task duration=25.378017ms task=action=service-watchdog
28/9/2026 22:12:11    executing task task=action=service-watchdog
28/9/2026 22:12:11    finished task duration=6.52196ms task=action=ssl&value=admin_ssl
28/9/2026 22:12:11    executing task task=action=ssl&value=admin_ssl
28/9/2026 22:11:34    license updated successfully

Is this every-minute task normal?

A few extra notes to add:

* I have the session timeout duration set to 1 week - due to only me using the whole VPS and needing to use phpmyadmin a lot;
* I am logged into my DA account via the Impersonate option in admin;

 

[wila]

Yikes, 9.65GB on one of my servers, under 1GB on the rest.

 

[LawsHosting]

As there's a lack of input from the DA team, I guess I shouldn't worry? Or try to debug what's going on?

 

[wila]

The host above that was at 9GB RAM usage for DirectAdmin, was updated 2 days ago and is now at 10GB RAM usage.
After restarting it uses 104MB. I'm going to put a restart every 12 hours in the crontab as a workaround.

 

[utkarsh]

Is it normal for it to use gigs of RAM? Hovers around 5Gig.

(I've compared MySQL, as it's the most used)

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Thanks