MariaDB usage continued to climb until it crashed

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OK. This is interesting. 2 systems in a couple of days with the same problem and on the same OS?

Different OS and db ‘flavor’ but:

The 20%/70% assumes you have at least 4GB of RAM. If you have a tiny antique, or a tiny VM, then those percentages are too high.