I have set up a few VPS's with low ram (one had 128MB with no swap) a couple mongrels behind nginx and it is rather fast and can handle it well. The Rails app on that site is fairly small but uses file_upload and rmagick and has never stalled in production (not saying i like rmagick or anything). The traffic on it is fairly low but you can hit it with httperf at 50 requests per second (10,000 request batch) and it doesn't even slow down in response time too much. This site isn't anything to brag about but I just want to make the point on what you can do as long as you set things up correctly. if you are just running single mongrel instance you shouldn't need very much ram, if you are having problems that tells me that something else is amiss.
Kyle Kochis On 2/22/07, Jim Hogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zed, > > I haven't followed this discussion, but I was running Apache 2.2 + 3 > mongrels on a Pent 2 with 64Mb of memory running Linux and it worked. > It was dog slow because it was always swapping, but it ran. Does his > system not swap? > > BTW, just an excuse to say thanks for Mongrel. I was ready to abandon > the whole rails thing after many months of fighting with various > mod_ruby, fastcgi, etc solutions only to have them work sometimes and > sometimes not. Mongrel saved the day. Thanks! > > - Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zed A. Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:55 PM > Subject: Re: [Mongrel] Critical Issue - Site down... > > > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:41:41 -0500 > > "Roy Satterfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> 184 MB RAM, 15 GB Hard Drive Space, 150 GB Bandwidth > > > > Roy, 184M of ram is *not* enough to run most production sites. > > Ever. > > > > This is why you get an out of memory error. > > > > Sorry to be short, but you seriously need to expand this or get > > someone > > to help you. > > > > -- > > Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu > > http://www.zedshaw.com/ > > http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321483502 -- The Mongrel Book > > http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ > > http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help. > > _______________________________________________ > > Mongrel-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
