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Natan Yellin
Natan Yellin

Reputation: 6387

Reducing Redmine's memory usage - Low Hanging Fruit

I am running a Redmine instance with Passenger and Nginx. With only a handful of issues in the database, Redmine consumes over 80mb of RAM.

Can anyone share tips for reducing Redmine's memory usage. The Redmine instance is used by 3 people and I am willing to sacrifice on speed.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3708

Answers (2)

linuxexplore
linuxexplore

Reputation: 419

May be i am replying very late but i got stuck in the same issue and I found a link to optimize ruby/rails memory usage, which works for me

http://community.webfaction.com/questions/2476/how-can-i-reduce-my-rubyrails-memory-usage-when-running-redmine

It may be helpful for someone else.

Upvotes: 1

Holger Just
Holger Just

Reputation: 55718

There are not really and low hanging fruits. And if there were, we would've already included and activated them by default.

80 MB RSS (as opposed to virtual size which can be much more) is actually pretty good. In normal operation, it will use between 70 and 120 MB RSS per process (depending on the deployment model, rather few on passenger).

As andrea suggested, you can reduce your overall memory footprint by about one third when you use REE (Ruby Enterprise Edition, which is also free). But this saving can only achieved when you run more than one process (each requiring the above memory). REE achieves this saving by optimizing Ruby for a technique called Copy on Write, so that additional application processes take less memory.

So I'm sorry, your (hypothetical) 128 MB vServer will probably not suffice. For a small installation, you might be able to squeeze a minimal installation into 256MB, but it only starts to be anything but a complete pain in the ass at 512 MB (including database).

That's because of how Rails applications work in contrast to things like PHP. They require a running application server instance. That instance is typically able to answer one request at a time, using about the same amount of memory all the time. So your memory consumption is roughly equivalent to the number of application processes you run, independent of actual load. But if you tune your system properly, you can get quite a number of reqs/s out of one process.

Upvotes: 3

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