Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > I'm trying to run mailman 2.1.8 on a system with only 32 MB RAM (and > ~100 MB swap).
I think that's unlikely to work well. > However, it fails to start - the system swaps very heavily, and then > mailman gets killed by the kernel. I'm not surprised. > Without mailman started, the system uses about 12 MB RAM. > > What are the minimal memory requirements for mailman (~1 post a day)? There is some info in FAQ 1.24 on this subject (see <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.024.htp>), but this doesn't include the kinds of hard numbers that I think you're probably looking for. I don't know what the absolute minimum requirements are, but keep in mind that you not only have to have memory and swap for Mailman, but also the MTA and the web server. Checking the memory requirements for just Mailman on a relatively low-traffic server that I have access to, I find that it currently takes about 130MB of virtual memory, and 26MB of real RAM, just for the Mailman stuff alone. The web server component looks like it's running about 77MB swap and 19MB RAM, while the MTA is 29MB swap and 11MB RAM. So, at an absolute minimum, this machine would require ~236MB swap space and ~56MB of real RAM, plus the OS requirements. Given these numbers, I wouldn't try to run Mailman on a machine with less than 512MB of swap and 128MB of RAM. > Is it possible to minimize the memory usage by only running some parts > of mailman (i.e., I only want the archive be viewable via the web > interface). I don't think you're going to cut down those memory requirements by much, at least not for Mailman itself. You might be able to find a web server that requires less swap and RAM, and an MTA that is lighter in requirements, but in my experience Mailman itself is pretty much the same all over. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 LOPSA member since December 2005. See <http://www.lopsa.org/>. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
