On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:52:09AM +0100, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Eugen Leitl wrote: > > >Another question: I'm about to buy memory for a couple of servers, to run > >VServers. What's the memory footprint of a typical VServer (running, let's > >say, postfix/apache/openvpn)? 100 MBytes, twice that? > > Depends on what is running. > E.g. for a native Linux server (non-vserver) running > Apache+PostgreSQL+Antville(Java-Wiki-bloat) 128 MB is to small, and 164
yep java is excessive and java web stuff is the killer (resource wise) > would be better. Performance is bad. > > Just plain HTML, plus some Perl, PHP, SSI at Apache, mail etc. runs at > ~150 MB without any swapping during weeks (total physical memory is 512 MB). hmm, I think that isn't as optimized as it could be ... I know of http/php/ssh/mail/mysql/postgres servers which had a memory footprint of about 80MB ... of course it is a matter of configuration and tuning ... > Calculating 150-200 MB would be better. Adding memory usally is the > cheapest way to tune your system. agreed, and of course, your clients might benefit the most of some extra memory (quality wise ...) best, Herbert > Helmut Wollmersdorfer > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
