[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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>
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Ed Silva
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