By dunklea on

Hi all, I have a quick question concerning memory usage. I am currently on VSP hosting plan with a dedicated 256MB of RAM. Should I edit my php.ini file to the full memory allotment? I ask because I have my Drupal site up and running but it is having some performance issues.

Is there a quick and easy way to determine how much memory I need to run my site smoothly?

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vm’s picture

vm commented

performance issues are not always memory related as such memory may not be the problem. Is there something informative that is telling you that it is a memory issue?

other optimizing and tuning can be done as well. 2bits.com has some information on this as does the performance group on groups.drupal.org

dunklea’s picture

dunklea commented

I understand memory is not the only issue when it comes to performance, I have also been busy fine tuning my server settings as well, but I feel I am completely guessing when it comes to the php.ini memory setting. I don't know how much I need, if setting it too high has consequences and such.. and advice?

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nevets commented

If you only have 256 Meg of memory (sounds low) I would not set my php memory limit that high as a single process could potentially try and use that much memory and slow things down.