levovitch: How did you find out that you needed to buy more RAM? Was that because of the machine using swap, or because it was not running as it should (crashes etc).
I am currently running three servers, whereas two containing more than 200 sites (mostly small sites). Lately, I've been experiencing problems with server crashes on those two servers. I am attaching some information on memory usage on one of the servers. Please note though, that the third server, which is actually not put under much pressure, is also using swap. Is 200 MB of swap usage actually that much?
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Fri May 23 15:12:00 CEST 2003
3:12pm up 1 day, 17:57, 0 users, load average: 0.18, 0.23, 0.27
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 525230080 512942080 12288000 675840 44462080 309972992
Swap: 1052827648 188067840 864759808
MemTotal: 512920 kB
MemFree: 12000 kB
MemShared: 660 kB
Buffers: 43420 kB
Cached: 143192 kB
SwapCached: 159516 kB
Active: 203236 kB
Inact_dirty: 134280 kB
Inact_clean: 9272 kB
Inact_target: 131056 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 512920 kB
LowFree: 12000 kB
SwapTotal: 1028152 kB
SwapFree: 844492 kB