[mohaa] recommended settings for server?

Eduardo E. Silva esilva at silvex.com
Wed Dec 17 13:20:15 EST 2003


Since you are rather limited with RAM. Stop ALL services such as httpd,
sendmail, don't use X (use the text based console.

Nathan Peters said:
> Hey everyone.  I need to ask a question to the linux gurus.  I have a
> server up.  Red Hat linux 9, Pentium 4 3ghz, 128mb RAM (yeah i know not
> very much - provided by host - I'm limited because of finances).  It's 32
> slots.  5 of them are private.  It is full right now.  I'm on a OC192
> backbone.  Bandwidth rocks.  But lag is experienced some.  What is the
> recommended amount of RAM?  At first I had 64megs of RAM.  Heavy swap
> usage maxed out RAM.  Then I went up to 128megs of RAM and here is what
> the top command shows.
>
>  21:40:16  up 10:09,  1 user,  load average: 0.27, 0.22, 0.1835 processes:
> 32 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stoppedCPU states:  25.3% user   2.3%
> system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  72.3% idleMem:   124236k av,  122020k
> used,    2216k free,       0k shrd,    1836k buff        46488k active,
>            70744k inactiveSwap:  131064k av,   48176k used,   82888k free
>                   11652k cached
>   PID   USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU
> COMMAND  782 nathan    14   0  104M  98M 38072   R        24.3   80.8
> 74:43   0  mohaa_lnxded
>
> When I had 64megs of RAM it had about the same - 70-80%.  I go to 128megs
> and full loaded server and it's the same?  Neways, can someone tell me
> what to do?  Do I need more RAM or is that just how the server runs?
> Thanx.
>
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