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I recently purchased an Ubuntu VPS. However my memory is almost completely consumed by mysql and bind9.

Is there any way to use another DNS Server instead of bind9 that consumes less RAM?

Or perchance there is a configuration to lower its memory usage?

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  • Specify how much memory please and what your appliance is
    – Lucas Kauffman
    Feb 27, 2012 at 9:48
  • How low IS your RAM? You know, a small small VPS - 32mb or 64mb - is not really there to run anything else than a small DNS or some other similar small app.
    – TomTom
    Feb 27, 2012 at 9:49
  • its using about 200M, and for my case it is RAM wasting.
    – wtayyeb
    Feb 27, 2012 at 9:51
  • @TomTom, currently my vps have 512M of Ram.
    – wtayyeb
    Feb 27, 2012 at 9:53
  • How much is used by bind, how much by mysql? mysql may want some tuning, but unless your app is tiny, 512mb is small... but then, tell us what uses how much.
    – TomTom
    Feb 27, 2012 at 9:55

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SSH will only use RAM when that RAM is not needed for any more important purpose. If you're not actually connecting to it, it should be swapped out as soon as there is any better use for memory. You're trying to solve a problem that's already solved by the operating system's memory management system.

The operating system understands that free RAM is free, that is, that there is no cost associated with using it. It makes no attempt to minimize RAM usage, nor does it generally make any sense for it to do so. Don't worry, the OS is smart enough to use your RAM for the most important purpose at any particular time. If it's letting SSH use the RAM, that's because that is what is best.

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  • thanks for the try but when I lunch BIND, Mysql and Nginx on the VPS, its stops responding to anything else! because there is no RAM remaining to response, ether to SSH.
    – wtayyeb
    Feb 27, 2012 at 14:45
  • Sounds like you don't have enough swap. You need to be able to get the stuff that's not being used out of RAM.
    – David Schwartz
    Feb 27, 2012 at 20:05
  • yes I have no swap. also i dont know how to create a swap on this vps. I am reading this and this but cant do the trick!
    – wtayyeb
    Feb 27, 2012 at 20:49

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