Optimizing

ServerSharp

Hello,

Firstly, would you recommend using LAMP (Apache) or LNMP (Nginx)?
Secondly, how would you optimize that so that altogether it uses less RAM as I've tried both and they were using about 250MB RAM (MySQL included). Both have light use (no databases to start with)

Thanks

Mon5t3r

@dominicl said: Firstly, would you recommend using LAMP (Apache) or LNMP (Nginx)?

why you're asking this?

3..2..1.. everybody vote for LNMP..

jcaleb

minstall

ServerSharp

Fair enough. LNMP it is then..

@dominicl said: Secondly, how would you optimize that so that altogether it uses less RAM as I've tried both and they were using about 250MB RAM (MySQL included). Both have light use (no databases to start with)

@jcaleb said: minstall

Which is? :P

Taz

Why not use sqlite instead of MySQL?

ServerSharp

@NinjaHawk said: Why not use sqlite instead of MySQL?

Never used that before, but i've seen that people have used LNMP with like 90mb RAM w/ MySQL before or even less than that..

Mon5t3r

@dominicl said: Which is? :P

https://github.com/maxexcloo/Minstall

ServerSharp

@Mon5t3r said: https://github.com/maxexcloo/Minstall

Doesn't seem to be able to be used under CentOS, looking at the description.

Taz

CentminMod for centos.

ServerSharp

@NinjaHawk said: CentminMod for centos.

Will it optimize as well for me, so that it uses the least RAM?

jcaleb

how much ram does your box have?

Mon5t3r

@dominicl said: Doesn't seem to be able to be used under CentOS, looking at the description.

@maxexcloo

@dominicl said: Will it optimize as well for me, so that it uses the least RAM?

@eva2000

ask em directly. :P

ServerSharp

@jcaleb said: how much ram does your box have?

512mb

vanarp

@dominicl said: Doesn't seem to be able to be used under CentOS

Any specific reason you chose CentOS over Debian/Ubuntu?

By the way, is it a 512 mb OpenVZ or Xen/KVM vps?

ServerSharp

Preference really. It's ovz.

martip07

Nginx love .... but it depends, what do you wanna do?

Taz

Doesn't seem to be able to be used under CentOS

BTw, Why not use debian squeeze? Lot lighter.

vanarp

@dominicl said: Preference really. It's ovz.

Something quick to think about is adding below lines under [mysqld] section of the my.cnf file (on debian/ubuntu it is /etc/mysql/my.cnf). It will quickly save you > 20 MB (max is unknown!).

skip-innodb
default-storage-engine=MyISAM

For further suggestions, you may want to show us output of below commands.

free -m
ps aux

jcaleb

512mb is a lot man.... why need optimize...

jar

Just that much more you can do with it.

jcaleb

maybe he is using 64bit

eva2000

@dominicl said: Will it optimize as well for me, so that it uses the least RAM?

Centmin Mod memory usage out of the box read http://centminmod.com/faq.html#memoryused

Less memory doesn't necessarily mean optimised. It all depends on what your applications require memory wise to run optimally. If your applications require more memory to perform better and you starve those applications in terms of memory, you sometimes will result in less optimal performance.

Optimisation is about efficiently providing the right about of memory that an application requires to run optimally.