High Memory usage

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#1 Wed, 11/09/2011 - 10:11
gronzo

High Memory usage

Hello, i have just bought a VPS with webmin/virtualmin installed. My server is set at 512 MB ram, and i'm planning to host just a couple wordpress sites.

my problem is that ou of the box 466MB of the memory are used already. What can i do to reduce the memory used?

I attach you a screenshot with all the proscesses that are running.

Thanks a lot

gronzo

http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/8852/memorye.jpg

Wed, 11/09/2011 - 11:05
andreychek

Howdy,

Yeah, you'd want to go through and disable any services you don't need.

For example, in your output, all those Python processes are for Mailman -- and not everyone requires that. If you don't intend on using Mailman, you can disable it.

There's some tips on reducing memory usage here:

http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/system/low-memory

Thu, 11/10/2011 - 04:19
helpmin

If you have OpenVZ then 512MB is very low (for an Apache webserver), since it doesn't have a swap file. and all virtual memory is counted (towards the memory limit). You could experiment with ulimit -s though.

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