Sysadmin-fu needed: I have a personal server in the cloud that has 1 GB
of RAM. It's running Debian, and the usual server basics--MySQL, nginx,
etc. No X, of course.
There are three Catalyst apps running, all of them fairly small, using
nginx and FCGI (I run the MyApp_fastcgi.pl script to a
I run a server with 18 separate installs of ShinyCMS running, with at least 3
and sometimes 20 processes per install. 122 perl-fcgi processes in total.
They look a bit bigger than most of your processes. I've got 8GB of RAM, and
I'm pushing up against the edges of it a bit, but I don't
In my experience, it's usually a few naughty requests that gobble up a lot
of memory. We found it useful to record process vsize and rss at the
beginning and end of the request cycle to generate warnings like this:
Warning: PID 28710 grew rss by 20% from 42 MiB to 51 MiB serving GET
