[BlueOnyx:09846] Re: Memory Usage

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
>> Can anyone shed some light on this for me?  Thanks!
> 
> Look at all the Swap that the box is using... it's choking!
> 
> 512MB RAM for any modern box, esp if you're using any dynamic sites 
> (PHP, MySQL) is really quite low.  I would not be surprised to see 
> performance hits given the specs.
> 
> So now what is happening is you're draining the available RAM and 
> swapping memory to an extremely low performance disk (remember, you're 
> sharing that disk throughput with however many other users doing 
> goodness knows what.)
> 
> We charge $10 more per month, but our minimal BlueOnyx VPS has 4 CPU 
> units and 1GB RAM and 500GB transfer.  I certainly would not recommend 
> more than that, and that is why we don't offer less than that.

And of course, what I should have said was I would not recommend LESS 
than that.   More never hurts, but I've also never been a fan of trying 
to sell a customer more than they really need.  That's short-term thinking.

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