I’m Running out of Memory

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Not in my human brain.. fortunately. Well, actually, that’s just about gone and I have a hard time remembering things anyway. :) But specifically I’m talking about the RAM Memory on my VPS.

Figuring a Bob stroller won’t really help my memory problems, I pulled up Google (Yeah it’s evil, but it’s the best) and started to have a look around.

Looks like Apache is my biggest memory hog. And figuring my VPS is only used for web things, that is understandable. I don’t use the VPS for anything else other than a web server! So it’s time to tune up Apache, and maybe MySQL, to see if that helps my memory issues.

Right now, after a bit of tuning, my WebMin reports:
512 MB total, 348.22 MB used

I’ve been getting up to 500MB used, which is bad. And I’m getting Out Of Memory errors and my blogs are slowing down. So… in order to help this out, I changed some settings in Apache:
StartServers 6
MinSpareServers 3
MaxSpareServers 10

From what I’ve been reading, this should help. Originally it was set ti 8 4 and 20, respectively. I really would like processes killed off (MaxSpreServers) when they are idle. Instead of being held to see if they will be used again. I am not sure how important this is for my blogs, but I guess I’ll find out.

So far, so good… I still am at
512 MB total, 348.55 MB used

So I’ll be watching this for a bit to see how if it helps. I hope so.

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