[mohaa] recommended settings for server?

[Eduardo E. Silva]

Please post a 'ps -ef' to further look at whats' running.

Nathan Peters said:
> 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!
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ed Silva
>> Silvex Consulting Inc.
>> esilva at silvex.com
>> (714) 504-6870 Cell
>> (714) 897-3800 Fax
>>
>>
>


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Thanks,

Ed Silva
Silvex Consulting Inc.
esilva at silvex.com
(714) 504-6870 Cell
(714) 897-3800 Fax