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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PHP-FPM workers never shrink. Here is how to bound them
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PHP-FPM workers never shrink. Here is how to bound them

A worker measured 30 MB when fresh and 97 MB forty hours later, on an idle server. Nothing was leaking — that is simply how PHP returns memory.

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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.

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