On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Ari Davidow <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 1. What are the real memory requirements of Fedora, excluding ingest?
>> > How do
>>
>> The most memory-intensive thing that Fedora does is reading and
>> writing FOXML.
>>
>
> Which takes me back to that scary opening question - how much memory is
> enough? Here's the thing. We were running our trivial Fedora server a couple
> of years ago on a micro EC2 instance--about 630MB. It wasn't running well,
> but there wasn't much on the server and virtually no traffic, so no problem.
> We're now integrating that with Drupal and wondering if using the next
> larger size, with 1.7GB is going to work. From there we'd be paying four
> times as much (for about four times as much RAM), which I'd like to avoid
> unless that's what is realistic. In the best of circumstances, I don't see
> the repository part of our server getting significant traffic, and more,
> don't see the large media items (video, say, or even print-resolution
> images) comprising significant traffic. But if the whole thing is going to
> run like a 1990s-era dialup, we need to rethink our budget sooner, rather
> than later.

A low-traffic Fedora instance without a huge number of datastream
versions or inline datastreams should run just fine on an m1.small
instance, with memory to spare. I think you'd be pushing your luck to
try to put it on a t1.micro with another service and expect
consistently acceptable performance. I haven't tried the latter; just
wouldn't recommend it.

It's hard to say what the baseline memory requirement for a Fedora
instance is for sure, but I think it's somewhere in the neighborhood
of 200-800mb. One m1.small instance I've had running for the last
couple weeks (running in the bundled Tomcat, with Derby selected at
the database) is sitting at 134m RES and 784m VIRT.

- Chris

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