[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk requirements

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Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Michiel van Es wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering what the default requirements for spacewalk 0.4/0.5 is.
>> I am now running with a 2 CPU vmware guest with 1,3 GB memory and 500
>> MB swap.
>> But the machine is running out of resources:
>>
>> top - 14:33:15 up 9 days,  3:28,  2 users,  load average: 40.81,
>> 32.33, 17.20
>> Tasks: 111 total,  35 running,  76 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> Cpu(s):  0.2%us, 97.7%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi, 
>> 0.0%si,  1.8%st
>> Mem:   1310896k total,  1304648k used,     6248k free,      212k buffers
>> Swap:   557048k total,   557048k used,        0k free,     7484k cached
>>
>> This is with 28 clients being updated at the moment...and I will be
>> running approx 100 servers in total.
>>
>> Do I need more memory and cpu?
> 
> Yes.
> I use 1GB for testing instances (e.g. 1-2 clients).
> 2GB RAM should be minimal if you do not want to wait for ages for every
> page.
> If you want to use monitoring add another 500 MB at least.
> 

That's... pretty big. I've worked on other websites, corporate ones, that
didn't need anything like that. What's so memory intensive?

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