Do I need more RAM?

Eric Cope eric.cope at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 00:31:39 MST 2010


you probably should not be using swap. Its always nice to have more RAM.

Eric

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> I have a Zope/Plone 2.5 web site running on Debian on a Linode virtual
> host. It has grown over the last few years, and now I need to add some more
> disk space. The site is for a school newspaper, so from August - June,
> students add news articles and photos.
>
> I was also looking at the output of top, and perhaps I need more RAM as
> well? Top shows I have only 5 MB free out of 368 MB of total RAM, but I am
> only using 9% of my swap, so perhaps I don't need more RAM. The site does
> not seem slow.
>
> Tasks:  69 total,   1 running,  68 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:    368836k total,   363364k used,     5472k free,     8316k buffers
> Swap:   524280k total,    46716k used,   477564k free,    67436k cached
>
> Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
>
> Mark
>
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