[mohaa] recommended settings for server?

[Nathan Peters]

Yeah I've turned off httpd.  I do have sendmail running but it's not using
too much RAM.  And I'm not usin' X it is text based.  It's not my computer
it's a server located remotely from me.  You pay monthly for what you want.
In my case by my limited "cash" I am only able to afford 128mb of RAM.  Hey
but thanx for your input.  And I'll stop sendmail to see if it helps.
Thanks for ur help!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eduardo E. Silva" <esilva at silvex.com>
To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [mohaa] recommended settings for server?


> 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.
> >
> > Nathan Have fun customizing MSN Messenger - learn how here!
> >
>
>
> -- 
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>
> Ed Silva
> Silvex Consulting Inc.
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>
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