[Koha] Out of memory

Chris Brown chris at stayawake.co.uk
Tue Mar 20 04:15:10 NZDT 2018


Barton et al,

The output from the "free" command in Rubeno's original post shows that he
has no swap space.

Chris Brown


On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Barton Chittenden <
barton at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:

> How much swap space do you have allocated?
>
> There are probably a lot of libraries loaded where Koha is only using a
> function or two, and I believe that MySQL is very aggressive about loading
> data into memory, not all of which is used.
>
> Conventional wisdom is that swap will slow down the system because you have
> to page things back into memory... but conventional wisdom doesn't take
> into account the fact that there are a lot of things that get loaded into
> memory but not used. Swap is good, folks!
>
> --Barton
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Mark Alexander <marka at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Excerpts from Rubeno Fernández's message of 2018-03-19 07:12:29 +0100:
> > > How much memory do you need to run Koha?
> > > I run a database with about 22000 records on a virtual server on
> Digital
> > Ocean
> > > with 1GB memory and very low usage, but the server is crashing very
> > often.
> >
> > We're running Koha 17.11.02 on Linode (Debian 8) with 2 GB of RAM, and
> > our library has about 25000 item records.  So far we haven't had any out
> > of memory problems.
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