On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I know > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirements... > > Let's say I have 20 medium sized wiki pages. Medium sized defined by > wikipedia definitions, normal articles, not too much. > > I expect having 10 to 100 viewers and maximum 5 editors at the same > time. > > How much RAM am I going to need? > > At the moment I have a VPS with debian and apache with 256 RAM. I am > still testing. When I open three different wiki pages in three different > browser tabs this takes ~128 MB RAM and the server RAM is full, thus no > other pages can be served. > > So how much RAM am I going to use per wiki site? Doesn't have to be uber > correct or proven, just tell me your experiences. How many users you > have at a time and that the server still works. If you have some numbers > I can upgrade my server plan.
Given how cheap RAM is now ($5/GB for typical server RAM, $10/GB for high quality ECC, $15/GB for 16 GB DIMMs... crucial.com current retail prices on all) ... why on earth stick with 256 MB for the server? Last time I provisioned an all-new Mediawiki server for internal use somewhere we used a 4 GB machine because we weren't buying anything smaller. Last time I bought a bunch of new servers I provisioned them at 48 GB because the RAM was the limit on performance until I got above 64 GB, and there was a huge DIMM price break point at the 48 GB limit (it was 4x as expensive for the 16 GB DIMMs at the time vs the 8 GB units). Seriously, max out your memory. It's the cheapest performance win you can find. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
