On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:36 PM, <anotst01(a)fastmail.fm> 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.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com