I've noticed that when opening up a TW file in a browser, it takes a lot more memory (10x) than the original TW file. I suspect that there is a lot of stuff that has to be "unpacked" into memory. By extension, the same thing probably happens inside of a node running tw.
On Friday, December 20, 2019 at 12:28:10 PM UTC-8, Enrico Guiraud wrote: > > Hi Jeremy, > tiddlywiki uses 110MB of RAM to serve an *empty *tiddlywiki. > > The total size of all wikis that I need to serve is currently less than > 15MB. I'm perfectly ok with all tiddlers being loaded in memory. > What I find weird is that every server I spin up has an overhead of 110+ > MB, and I'm looking into ways to reduce that. > > Cheers, > Enrico > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 21:19, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Enrico >> >> TiddlyWiki under Node.js loads the entire wiki into RAM. It does so in >> order to support server-side processing (such as serverside page >> rendering). But, of course, it is relatively resource intensive, and >> unnecessary if all the server is doing is acting as a front end to a >> database of tiddlers, and the browser is doing all the rendering. >> >> Arlen Beiler recently did some exploration along these lines recently: >> >> >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAJ1vdSSe4-y4wR%3D6o_ihBmYe8E_bUqAgqT0tpb7LwaSpv7K9Uw%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAJ1vdSSe4-y4wR%3D6o_ihBmYe8E_bUqAgqT0tpb7LwaSpv7K9Uw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy >> >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> [email protected] >> https://jermolene.com >> >> On 20 Dec 2019, at 15:59, Enrico Guiraud <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> big fan of tiddlywiki (I routinely use 3, hosted on a VPS) and recently I >> started advertising it to my friends. >> To get more people into tiddlywiki, I just set them up for them on my VPS. >> >> The problem: I'm now serving an average of 5-6 tiddlywikis, and my little >> VPS is almost out of RAM: each tiddlywiki server uses 110 MB or more. >> That's _a lot_, isn't it? >> >> Can anyone suggest ways to reduce memory usage when serving multiple >> tiddlywikis? >> >> Would it be possible to have one server serve different wikis on >> different paths (and if so, would it help)? >> >> >> Does anyone know what causes the large memory usage and whether it can be >> optimized? I would be willing to put some hours into this -- am a >> developer, but don't know much about javascript. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Enrico >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e9d9e0d4-3d54-462a-af72-4bcb92d2c268%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e9d9e0d4-3d54-462a-af72-4bcb92d2c268%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/55AC7B95-5384-4889-A7AE-82B063FCD22C%40gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/55AC7B95-5384-4889-A7AE-82B063FCD22C%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6f21cff6-261e-4029-bfe7-b231f91477f6%40googlegroups.com.
