My personal opinion is that one of the responses to this simple question was pretty shitty, and totally inaccurate.
In our experience, an image-serving copy of AOLserver with 30 threads configured runs in about 25MB, regardless of the load, and serving dynamic content on 30 threads takes 100-200MB, depending on the amount of caching you're doing with ns_shares and other types of persistent in-memory data storage, and the size of your preloaded tcl modules library. Of course, if you configure your fastpath cache to be huge or make some other drastic config change in nsd.tcl, it will show up as increased process size. 30 threads is a lot; most sites won't need that, but it all depends on the size of your OS's socket buffers, average size of the content you're serving, etc. An image-serving AOLserver, with TCL disabled, tends to be very stable memory-wise. A dynamic content server tends to grow in our experience, and I've always assumed that's because of heap fragmentation problems - not necessarily leaks. Just restart your server once a day/week. Jim > > --- John Shafto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Doing what? > > This particular machine only has a 512mb of ram, > > and serves mostly static content. I have bigger > > plans for it though. > > > > > AOLserver is NOT Apache. Get used to that. > > > > I'll try to keep them straight. Thanks for the > > tip. > > Am I the only one who feels somewhat uncomfortable by > this response? > If I've only got 50mb of static content that it's > serving up, and then pushing some db stuff through the > back, what on earth would possibly make the process > use 2gb+? > > I'd be getting worried then as well... > > > ===== > -- > live- http://www.thedenofsin.org/ > to- AIM: IMFDUP > _-jupiter accepts your offer-_ > > > -- > AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ > > To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with > the > body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field > of your email blank. > -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
