It did the trick, thank you very much! Now I have 1 worker per installation and system breathes mush faster even without swap file! Multiple python process still remain though...
On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 4:51:06 PM UTC+2, Nguyễn Văn Tú wrote: > > For testing purposes, you can reduce the number of workers, which is safe > and greatly reduce the amount of ram usage. The number of workers is set in > /edx/app/edxapp/lms_gunicorn.py and /edx/app/edxapp/cms_gunicorn.py. > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:26 PM Andreas Gelever <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi! >> I've installed the newest release of Open edX Hawthorn.2 on my developer >> PC running Ubuntu 16.04 LTE for testing purposes. >> The problem is that the whole bunch of installed services and systems >> consumes all my available RAM of 8GB as well as swap of 3.7 GB. >> >> *Can I safely turn off some of them to release some memory space?* >> >> Sorry, I am not an expert in Open edX architecture (I come from Java >> community) with no idea why it needs ruby, rabbitMQ, memcached even Java >> and other tools (of course I am aware it is written in Python))). But >> particularly I noticed about 14 heavy *python* processes under www-data >> user in System monitor consuming 200MB each! And 8 heavy *gunicorn* >> processes under the same user consuming approx. the same amount of memory >> each. Screenshots are attached. >> >> As this is *not a production installation*, and my objective is only to >> test some basic features like Studio and LTI interoperability, >> I would like to disable unnecessary functions, just to release a bit of >> RAM on my PC for browser and my Java IDE. >> >> If this is possible, please provide some instructions how to disable >> unnecessary services safely with the possibility to revert them back as >> needed. >> Any suggestions and links to a bit deeper information than is placed in >> on-line documentation would be greatly appreciated! >> Thank you. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "General Open edX discussion" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/37335784-95b9-4561-b32a-9efcdd42969c%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/37335784-95b9-4561-b32a-9efcdd42969c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/6b6c56e1-7019-42c4-969c-7a68a4bc30f3%40googlegroups.com.
