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Server Memory Usage [duplicate]

So I appear to be having some problems with VPS memory and wondered if someone could point me in the right direction. If I go in to Server Status, it constantly shows me as using 85% memory. Current ...
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Make PHP use more RAM than CPU on my server [closed]

By running TOP command on Ubuntu, i always see that PHP5 is using between 60% and 80% of the CPU but it stay low on Memory. i got 1.5GB of RAM on my VPS and i know i'm not using more than the half. ...
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Why would sysbench return 0 ops/sec for a memory test?

I signed up for digitalocean and created an ubuntu instance, and like I do with all webhosting I try out, I ran a few sysbenches to get an idea of how powerful their machines are (which is a trick I ...
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How to determine what is using all my server resources

I am having issues where my hosting account keep crashing due to running out of memory usage. I have a VPS Linux hosting account with 1Gb RAM. Recently whenever I make any changes to my site and ...
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Where is my RAM going? Top command included [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to understand the memory usage and load average in linux server Tasks: 39 total, 1 running, 37 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, ...
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A brand new VPS with high system overhead for RAM. Should I worry? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why is Linux reporting “free” memory strangely? I recently bought a cloud VPS (CentOS 5.8 x64) with 1024MB RAM from one of the hosting providers. It's managed and has ...
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Running a LAMP application entirely in memory

Our company uses a PHP/MySQL-based project management app heavily. So heavily that the app is really starting to slow down. It's not that the app is running out of memory -- I never go above 50% ...
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nginx VPS on Dreamhost using a lot of memory for two small sites

I have a similar problem to that of the user who posted High memory usage of WordPress hosted on DreamHost VPS. The reason this is a 'problem' is because when it maxes out the memory quota I set for ...
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Very high Magento/Apache memory usage even without visitors (are we fooled by our hosting company?)

I am no server guy and we have issues with our speed so I come here asking for advise. We have a VPS with 2 cores and 2gb of RAM at a Magento specialized hosting company. Over the course of the last ...
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My VPS is Out of RAM how much to I need more? [closed]

I have VPS server with 1.25GB ram and 0.51GB cache trying to up an e-commerce website with 200k items, db now is about 2gb anything is now works terrible slow now because of lack memory mysql queries ...
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High load average, low CPU and IO (Centos 5.7)

A Drupal 7 site with CiviCRM, after running smoothly for a year on a 1&1 VPS suddenly became unresponsive. Now pages eventually load, but can take more than a minute. Looking at resource use in ...
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Clear / Flush cached memory

I have a small VPS with 6GB RAM hosting a couple of websites. Recently I have noticed that my cached memory size is quite high - see below: Cpu(s): 0.1%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.1%id, 0.0%wa, ...
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what is the default size of jvm heap when using maven to create jvm?

I am using the server started by the following command. mvn jetty:run i want to stop the server, but i failed to run mvn jetty:stop, even faild to run java -version, why? [mirror@home wpse]$ mvn ...
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Virtual server hosting with dynamic resource reallocation [closed]

Our servers usually sit around all day at and ~25% Memory, but when I customer demands it, quickly (unscheduled and without prior notice) ramp up to use all memory available to it. This makes the ...
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named gets killed

Every once in a while, my server will kill named. This gets logged: Apr 16 17:00:08 li127-203 kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 15723 (named) score 38 or sacrifice child Apr 16 17:00:08 li127-203 ...
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Unusually high memory usage on a CentOS VPS with 512 guaranteed RAM

I'm working on a medium-sized web application written in PHP that's running on a VPS with 512mb ram. The webapp hasn't been officially launched yet, so there isn't too much traffic going on, just me ...
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Which Windows Server version should I use on a 512MB VPS? [closed]

I have signed up for a VPS with these specifications: Intel Core i7 (64-bit) 512 MB RAM 80 GB HDD I need to run Windows Server, but I'm wondering which version should I use. Windows Server 2003 ...
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How much memory is required for base lamp setup?

I am planning on renting a VPS. How much memory is required for a base setup of Debian, Apache, Mysql, PHP? By base, I mean not considering traffic (which will be below 1k hits a day). No ...
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How to fix RVM exhausting Virtual Memory on VPS?

I'm trying to install ruby via RVM on an Ubuntu VPS with only 512 MB memory. When running rvm install 1.9.3 I get the error: ERROR: Error running 'make ', please read ...
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Access violations on Windows 2008 VPS

I'm running a Windows 2008 VPS with 2GB RAM. I'm trying to install hMailServer on the VPS but when I get to the "choose installation directory" dialog I get error messages that keep popping up and ...
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How to measure dcachesize usage (and reduce it)

I have a VPS running CentOS 5.7 (Final), 32-bit. Right after boot, when I run # cat /proc/user_beancounters I see that my dcachesize usage is at about 4100000, while my VPS is set up with a limit of ...
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How to increase dcachesize on a VPS

I have a VPS running CentOS 5.7 (Final), 32-bit. When I run cat /proc/user_beancounters I see 18923 failcnt on privvmpages and 3396932 failcnt on dcachesize. They have a limit of 131072 and 4608000 ...
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How to find which process is responsibile for a RAM burst?

my VPS just ran out of RAM and I was forced to reboot it since I wasn't even able to ssh in. My question is where should I look at (logs, etc) to find out which process was responsibile for the RAM ...
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estimate ram usage for my vps [closed]

I'm gonna get a new vps, I'm gonna probably need 1 TB of bandwidth, around 20GB - 25GB of disk space - it's a php-mysql website, the php script itself is about 300kb but there will be many videos on ...
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Confusing memory usage in Parallels VM

I have a Parallels VPS with 1GB of RAM. Okay, hoster says it has 1GB but I can't check it as "free" and other similar commands return 13Gb which I guess is a size of physical memory. When I execute ...
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Is there any way to automatically prevent running out of memory?

I am often running out of memory on my VPS ubuntu server. I wish there was a way to simply restart apache2 when it starts running out of memory, as that seems to solve the problem. Or am I just too ...
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What is the optimal web application configuration on a VPS?

Currently I'm running our web application on a LAMP stack on a VPS with the following specs: 768MB memory Xen PV Ubuntu Maverick What I'm finding is that web server requests are frequently timing ...
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RAM burst, myth or reality?

Often when buying a VPS, we are faced with a number of features. These include the RAM. In XEN virtualization RAM and swap is (or should be) dedicated. In OpenVZ, how important is "burst"? I ask ...
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overusage of RAM in Hypervm VPS

I have a VPS running on hypervm in proceses list i have something like this > /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr > --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/ user : ...
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Memory is available, but swap gets full over time

On a small VPS of mine, I have enough free memory for the things that are running there (as in the log below), but every once in a while, when I run free -m, I see all the swap is taken up. What ...
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MySQL reserves too much RAM

I have a cheap VPS with 128Mb RAM and 256Mb burst. MySQL starts and reserves about 110Mb, but uses not more than 20Mb of them. My VPS Control Panel shows, that I use 127Mb (I also running nginx and ...
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small server, recommended os

I have a small VPS (256mb ram/512mb burst). I am in confusion as to which linux should i install on it, choice being, Ubuntu or CentOS. The server is going to be used for a rails app. and will also ...
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Reducing MySQL RAM usage on CentOS

I have a vps with CentOS 5 (32bit) and it has 256mb of ram, although not much it is enough for me. On idle with 2 ssh connections active and httpd running it uses about 40mb of ram, but as soon as I ...
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Amount of RAM for a web-server user

I'm curently hosting my clients web-sites on some vps servers. What I would like to know, how many visitors can use the multiple web sites concurrently, before I need to migrate each of the sites to ...
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For VPS, is 512 or 256MB RAM enough?

I am currently trying to choose between two VPS hosts, one is my current host (LunarPages) and one is Linode. The linode one is cheaper a bit, and has 512MBs of RAM but has a lot less bandwidth than ...
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I've installed Lighttpd on my VPS, still the webserver relies on swapping

I've lighttpd on Ubuntu 10 on a 256MB RAM VPS. My goal is to completely avoid swapping. I'm running a Drupal webste with some images, shopping cart (no videos.. quite low estimated traffic). So.. ...
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About MPM Prefork MaxClient parameter on 256M RAM server

I have a question about Apache MPM Prefork configuration on VPS servers. One slicehost articles, they suggest to set MaxClients to 40 if I have 256MB RAM on my virtual server. ...
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Running Drupal on a 256MB VPS?

Can I run Drupal on 256MB VPS hosting ? I know it depends on many factors, but I mean... can I run few Drupal websites on such VPS.. ? What are important configuration settings to optimize ...
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How to keep track of VPS performances

I have several websites on a VPS server. I'm using Ubuntu+Apache+PHP+Mysql. How can I track the performances of each website, and somehow to know when I need to upgrade RAM (I'm progressively adding ...
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High RAM usage for Such low trafficked site?

I have a site that users can listen to mp3 audios using a flash player. I have about 500 to 600 people visiting each day. The VPS specs are: RAM 1024MB Swap 2048MB Disk 40GB Here is a screenshot ...
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how much RAM for heavy static content serving?

I want to make a server for my static content. I need to serve some 3-10 mb files - a lot. (I will also put on this server some .js and .css and images from my websites). I thought of nginx and G-WAN ...
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Is 256MB RAM enough for a VPS server to run some Drupal-based websites with e-shop module?

Is 256MB RAM enough for a VPS server to run some Drupal-based websites with e-shop module ? thanks
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VPS eating up too much memory

I have installed CentOS 5.5 minimal on my VPS. Then I installed mysql (yum mysql mysql-server) and started as a service (service mysqld start) After that I installed PHP (yum install php). And finally ...
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Ubuntu VPS Server - Recommended free memory

I currently have a web application running on a vps server running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. I recently had installed Nagios as monitoring tool. I had configured an extra plugin in order to check the free ...
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On a VPS that runs DB and IIS, should I limit the RAM used by SQL Server?

I have a Windows 2008 R2 VPS with 1 GB of RAM. I'm using the VPS to run SQL Server 2008 Express and IIS 7.5. I've noticed that SQL Server tends to use as much memory as it can, to the detriment of ...
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Any way to reduce bind9 memory footprint?

I am running my own Authoritative DNS on bind9 for like 5 of my domains with little traffic. I am running them on 2 separate VPS servers (so every Mb of memory costs me some $x2). Is there any way to ...
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Apache crashing VPS - need to reduce memory usage

I have a VPS running a web application served using Apache, that on average deals with 20-50 requests per second. It's usually above this point (50 requests per second) that the amount of memory that ...
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How much RAM should I need on my VPS package? Am I being ripped off?

So, I'm currently on a VPSVille Cpanel3 account that has 768 MB guaranteed ram and 2048 MB burst ram (full details here: http://www.vpsville.ca/cpanel-vps). It's running CentOS, Cpanel, Apache and ...
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VPS With 30 Sites - How much RAM do I need?

I have a VPS running a 64-Bit Windows 2008 server with: 1.9 GB of Ram [that RAM is dedicated to this VPS - not shared] Currently I have 30 websites (all running the my custom ecommerce app) running on ...
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How does the VPS provider decide which process to kill?

Almost all of them promise me x-MB RAM and y-MB dynamically. I'm a programmer but I don't understand how they decide which process needs to be killed if I alloc memory and keep it for such a long ...

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