[rt-users] Max performance suggestions on slow hardware?

Jesse Vincent jesse at bestpractical.com
Thu Dec 4 14:58:00 EST 2003




On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:50:36PM -0700, Tremaine Lea wrote:
> 
> Hi there Michael,
> 
> 	I've discovered in my brief introduction to RT/IR thus far that is
> definitely a RAM intensive process.  I have an odd little frankenbox I was
> testing it on that is a P4 2.4 GHz with a mere 256 megs of ram.  In
> forwarding 300 email to it in relatively quick succession, both apache-ssl
> and mysql keeled over horribly due to a lack of memory.  The processor
> itself rarely came under any significant load at all even with multiple
> rt-mailgate/apache-ssl/mysql child processes.


IT would probably pay to reduce the number of concurrent apache
processes in low memory situations. Also, it's worth making sure your
MTA knows not to fork off delivery processes if load is skyrocketing.

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