The databases appear to be about 450MB-600MB.
Not bad, but what operation were you performing on the database at the time? complex queries with joins and such will drive memory/processor usage up.
I was selecting a database from the drop down menu.
On a side note I had a requirement from the dev group here to set php to a maximum memory usage of 1GB due to the large files that are being parsed
Holy CRAP that's huge. Is this a real need, or is this just the dev group wanting to not fix a problem? This seems like it could very quickly get out of hand if more than a user or two decide to kick off similar processes.
I have no idea where the file comes from but it is a 600-800MB delimited txt document. They use a web page to parse the file and create an Excel spread sheet.
I don't know what the txt file contains or why they need it converted to xls.
In any case I am told to make the system capable of meeting the dev teams needs.