Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a Zope/Plone 2.5 web site running on Debian on a Linode virtual host.
> It has grown over the last few years, and now I need to add some more disk
> space. The site is for a school newspaper, so from August - June, students
> add news articles and photos.
>
> I was also looking at the output of top, and perhaps I need more RAM as
> well? Top shows I have only 5 MB free out of 368 MB of total RAM, but I am
> only using 9% of my swap, so perhaps I don't need more RAM. The site does
> not seem slow.
>
> Tasks:  69 total,   1 running,  68 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:    368836k total,   363364k used,     5472k free,     8316k buffers
> Swap:   524280k total,    46716k used,   477564k free,    67436k cached
>
> Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
>
>   
(A)  You always need more RAM.  No matter how much you have.
(B)  The big impact of not having enough RAM is that things slow down 
with swapping.  If your computer is fast enough for you, you don't need 
more RAM badly, yet.
(C)  But you always need more RAM.

-- 
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
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