Your database is probably not what's eating your RAMPHP-FPM workers never shrink. Here is how to bound themSizing MariaDB's buffer pool on a small VPSSwap is not optional on a small serverSoft 404s are quietly costing you search trafficYour sitemap might be lying to you10 essays · 5 sectionsYour database is probably not what's eating your RAMPHP-FPM workers never shrink. Here is how to bound themSizing MariaDB's buffer pool on a small VPSSwap is not optional on a small serverSoft 404s are quietly costing you search trafficYour sitemap might be lying to you10 essays · 5 sections
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Your database is probably not what's eating your RAM
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Your database is probably not what's eating your RAM

A 1.7 GB MariaDB process looked like the obvious culprit. The real problem was a PHP script with no memory limit and a server with no swap.

Alien XP· 3 min Read more →
Sizing MariaDB's buffer pool on a small VPS
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Sizing MariaDB's buffer pool on a small VPS

Debian ships the setting commented out, so a multi-gigabyte database runs on a 128 MB cache and burns CPU re-reading the same pages forever.

Alien XP· 2 min Read more →
Swap is not optional on a small server
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Swap is not optional on a small server

Without swap, the first allocation that cannot be satisfied is immediately fatal to something — and the kernel picks its victim by size, not by blame.

Alien XP· 2 min Read more →
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