Configuration of my server is 8 gb RAM but yes our website has 250+ hits daily. Dec 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Tompsett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings, > > When I first setup Koha, I was using a 3.6.3 tarball on Ubuntu with 512MB > of memory. I discovered that apache was leaking about 1MB per transaction > in Koha. This caused us a pain when indexing/reindexing. At that time, we > couldn’t even complete a full reindex with apache and MySQL running. > > So, if you seem to be running out of memory after 24 hours, I would > suggest a cronjob that restarts apache daily at an off hours time, if you > are unable to increase the amount of memory you have. The OS/Apache > eventually recover the leaks without intervention if you wait long enough, > and/or are able to determine better apache settings. > > You can use "free -m" to determine the total amount of memory, free > memory, and swap space that you have in megabytes. The size of your > catalogue and the number of transactions (check in/check out/clicking a > button on a Koha page) are usually used to determine the amount of disk > space and memory you should be using. > > It should also be noted that Zebra is a memory hog. This is why my > *temporary* solution was turning off apache, doing the reindexing, turning > apache back on, and restarting the zebra indexing daemon. > > We are currently running 3.8.6 off of packages now. When we increased the > memory to 1GB, this was no longer required as memory management stabilized. > We do not have high traffic on our site (yet), but it is growing. And as it > grows, this minimum of 1GB will likely need to be increased. It should also > be noted we have no swap space. > > GPML, > Mark Tompsett > -- Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W) 400601 MUMBAI. INDIA @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : [email protected] Mob : 9987049099 elibrary :http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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