topic Re: Labs 3b Memory Requirements in Alfresco Archive

Labs 3b Memory Requirements

ipwtech — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:11:11 GMT

I have been trying for the past 3 days to get the Alfresco Labs3 installed on a Debian box (specs below). No luck so far and I think I have hit a roadblock with resources. Can you all post your memory specs or suggest what is required to get this running with regard to RAM?root:/opt/alfresco# uname

Re: Labs 3b Memory Requirements

mikeh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:15:11 GMT

This wiki article may help with the install: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Debian_Installation

However! You need Java 5 or 6 plus I suspect more like 512Mb or 1Gb of RAM.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Hardware

Mike

Re: Labs 3b Memory Requirements

ipwtech — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:26:58 GMT

Aye,

I got it installed using the instructions and it seems fine as far as the install is concerned. When I start it it starts up and according to the Alfresco logs it is ready to use, but after a matter of seconds the process shuts down and that is all she wrote.

checking ps aux, top, free and other tools I notice that the resources are ridiculously high. Especially for the memory it climbs to 200-220Mb before my VPS can't handle it anymore.
===
root:/opt/alfresco# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1024        201        822          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:        201        822
Swap:            0          0          0
root:/opt/alfresco# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           128        128          0          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:        128          0
Swap:           75         75          0
===

The company that I get the VPSs from only have 512 as the highest one available. I don't want to get one that high if its not going to work, or work well. Should I be looking into dedicated with at least 1Gb of RAM?

Re: Labs 3b Memory Requirements

mikeh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:39:26 GMT

Depends how heavy the use is going to be, but I'd suggest 512Mb is really pushing the lower limit.

Mike