Carl Zwanzig wrote:
>> > I'm trying to run mailman 2.1.8 on a system with only 32 MB RAM (and
>> > ~100 MB swap).
>
>> 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.
>
> FWIW, I'm running mailman on an openbsd system w/ 64M ram and 200M swap
> on an old Compaq P90. Active software includes mailman (2.1.5), apache,
> postfix, and bind. Not very speedy, but works well enough for <50 member
> lists.
Cool. I'll update the FAQ entry with this info.
> top tells me:
> Memory: Real: 23M/47M act/tot Free: 11M Swap: 41M/200M used/tot
Can you get more process-specific information about Mailman, apache,
postfix, and BIND?
On the BSD system I previously quoted from, I was running commands like:
% ps auxww | grep -i mailman | awk '{ sum+=$5 } END { print sum }'
... in order to get the VSZ (virtual size) information, and using
"...$6..." to get the physical RAM usage.
> There are tiny web and smtp servers, but I suspect that most of them will
> be missing -some- feature that mailman needs. While trying to shoehorn a
> working system onto some "interesting" platform can be fun, life will be
> easier if you can add a bunch of memory.
Yup. But it would be interesting to do some tests and see if we can find
out what a reasonable minimum system configuration really is for these
kinds of things. Your 64MB/200MB system is smaller than I thought would
work even moderately well (based on the information I had gathered), but
it may be that we could cut things down even more.
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