Just catching up on mails. What about SQLite instead?
Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Douglas Sent: 06 March 2008 17:38 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Minimal, Lighttpd, Perl CGI,PHP and & MySQL with Tiny Memory On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Andrew Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've written a guide to installing Ubuntu Server, Lighttpd (an > alternative to the Apache web server), Perl CGI, PHP and & MySQL on a > machine (or virtual machine) with 64MB of memory or less. > > http://www.aoakley.com/articles/2008-03-06-ubuntu-minimal-memory.php > > Comments very much appreciated, in particular the MySQL config. > > Although Ubuntu does provide a LAMP default install in Ubuntu Server > edition, this requires 256MB memory. In particular, Apache and > especially the default MySQL install are real memory hogs, and are > designed for reasonably heavy-use environments. I saw around 200MB RAM > in use with no users connected! > > My config, in contrast, is designed for test/development environments or > very low-use websites, typically serving no more than 6 concurrent users > and only simple SQL requests. My tests under Ubuntu 6 LTS Server showed > less than 34MB of memory in use. > > In particular, my config is suitable for very cheap VPS hosting accounts > such as vpsville.ca , tektonic.net , cheapvps.co.uk and so forth - > basically your own root-access Internet server for less than five quid a > month! Sounds cool, but I bet there are much better replacements for MySQL, like Postgres, which runs in quite a low mem footprint. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
