[opencms-dev] Minimum memory requirements?

[Joe Desbonnet]

Is your memory fixed or can you easily upgrade if you pick the wrong option? 

Now I havn't tried this, so I don't know if it will work: if you have
a Linux machine, you can tell it to boot and use less memory that it
actually has using the mem=xxxxM boot option.
So you could try mem=128M on your development computer and see how the
system performs.

My hunch is that you just might get away with 128MB but it will impact
performace. I think 256MB would be closer to the mark. I normally
recommend 512MB or more for any serious application server.

Joe.


On 8/24/05, Robert Burén <robert.buren at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to deploy our new site on a rented virtual linux server,
> running Debian, Tomcat and MySQL. Since virtual servers are basically
> priced on the amount of memory you get assigned to you, I really need
> to know what the minimum memory requirements on this machine would be.
> I suppose 64 MB is out of the question? Would 128 MB be worth a try?
> Or do I have to go for the more expensive 256 MB?
> 
> The site will be a pretty low volume site, with a couple of dozen
> pages. It's our company's home site, so it's going to be semi-static,
> but we need to be able to update it easily. We will probably update it
> on a weekly basis, but not every day. It will include a simple RSS
> aggregation from our other site (a blog site), so a pure static export
> doesn't cut it.
> 
> I don't really need to run anything else on the server, except for
> sshd for logins. If there are resources to spare, I might run an email
> (smtp/imap) server on it as well, but I'll definitely skip that if
> that would mean that I could go for the 64 MB option!
> 
> Any input based on experience from you guys?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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