On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:37:57PM -0700, 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.
I also run a virtual server, with 400M of RAM. I was considering Plone for some websites a couple of years back, and abandoned the idea, because Zope and Plone are memory hogs. There are tweaks for apache and other processes to reduce memory a bit, at the expense of performance. But you probably should pay for more RAM (probably a lot more) if you want to run Zope-based apps. Running more swap in a virtual environment is Not A Good Idea. You are hammering all the other clients on the box, not just you. My hosting service discourages it. If I want to do a distro upgrade (a very rare occurence) I add some file-based swap, and slow down my neighbors, but I never do that for day-to-day operation. Get more RAM. It may cost a hundred more dollars per year from a virtual service (though the physical RAM only costs Linode $10 or so), but it will make the machine run faster, and will accomodate future footprint increases by Plone, which will always get bigger. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
