Hi John,
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 04:47:10PM +0100, John Morgan Salomon wrote:
I am working on figuring out my Drupal/Apache
configuration issues (of
which there are several), but while I can probably get the memory
usage to somewhat tolerable levels, I would be grateful to hear from
people who have similar setups what sort of minimum memory specs you
recommend for 5-10 Apache processes? I have no problem figuring out
what 'd theoretically need, but it would be very cool if anyone could
share their real-life experience on what they'd recommend to be safe.
Well, first up I have no direct experience of Drupal. However..
The most important thing is to check you're not swapping. You
should see how big the typical Apache child process is and then see
how many of those you can fit in your RAM, setting maxclients
appropriately.
As Duane said, if you can use Lighttpd instead of Apache then that
will help.
Also do not neglect your MySQL configuration:
http://drupal.org/node/85768
Cheers
Andy
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