RAM recommendations for a large site (dedicated box)
Hullo,
I'm running a fairly large Umbraco site (1500+ documents) on a dedicated server. I'm finding that it is running very slowly on a server with 2GB of RAM, though it doesn't seem to run too badly on my PC (4GB RAM).
I have two questions:
1. Is there a page somewhere on the Umbraco site that lists minimum and recommended technical specs?
2. What's everyone else using for dedicated servers and how is performance?
More information would be very helpful, though in general I'm surprised you've got performance problems with a dedicated server with 2GB of RAM. What OS, database, load/number of hits have you got?
If you append ?umbDebugShowTrace=true to the querystring of a slow page, do you find that some macro(s) are slow? Or, if the page is quick to generate perhaps the problem is bandwidth between your server and your browser (or you've got large amounts of data to transfer), rather than an umbraco problem?
2GB of Ram should be sufficient. However, if SQL is on the same box, be sure to limit the memory consumption of SQL Server. It will gladly eat all the RAM on the server if given the option (and default configuration).
How much memory is the IIS WP using? SQL?
The IIS WP should not require any more than a couple hundred MB unless you are caching everything possible.
Thank you all for your replies. Caching and SQL Server config I will have to investigate as I wasn't involved in setting up either of these parts.
At the moment, memory usage is 742,376 K for sqlservr.exe and our two sites (staging and live) are using 233,184 K and 230,120 K for each of their w3wp.exe processes.
RAM recommendations for a large site (dedicated box)
Hullo,
I'm running a fairly large Umbraco site (1500+ documents) on a dedicated server. I'm finding that it is running very slowly on a server with 2GB of RAM, though it doesn't seem to run too badly on my PC (4GB RAM).
I have two questions:
1. Is there a page somewhere on the Umbraco site that lists minimum and recommended technical specs?
2. What's everyone else using for dedicated servers and how is performance?
I imagine the server requirements would differ based on many factors.
It's probably worth posting as much information about your site as possible.
How are you implementing caching for example?
More information would be very helpful, though in general I'm surprised you've got performance problems with a dedicated server with 2GB of RAM. What OS, database, load/number of hits have you got?
If you append ?umbDebugShowTrace=true to the querystring of a slow page, do you find that some macro(s) are slow? Or, if the page is quick to generate perhaps the problem is bandwidth between your server and your browser (or you've got large amounts of data to transfer), rather than an umbraco problem?
Let us know.
cheers,
doug.
Hi Peter,
2GB of Ram should be sufficient. However, if SQL is on the same box, be sure to limit the memory consumption of SQL Server. It will gladly eat all the RAM on the server if given the option (and default configuration).
How much memory is the IIS WP using? SQL?
The IIS WP should not require any more than a couple hundred MB unless you are caching everything possible.
Thank you all for your replies. Caching and SQL Server config I will have to investigate as I wasn't involved in setting up either of these parts.
At the moment, memory usage is 742,376 K for sqlservr.exe and our two sites (staging and live) are using 233,184 K and 230,120 K for each of their w3wp.exe processes.
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