Linode Users, what is your setup?

Posted by Dokuro on January 5, 2011 at 2:18pm

Trying to see what people are running on Linode.

Are you running 32 or 64 bit and what plan are you running on.

What is your performance like?

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Mine. To answer my own

Posted by Dokuro on January 5, 2011 at 2:22pm

Mine. To answer my own question.

Right now I have an install, D6, Organic Groups, Ubercart, Ubercart Marketplace, Media (Video/Images), Multi-lingual Japanese/English.

Right now its on 1.1 on 32 bit. With the 768 plan.

I am seeing a high I/O rate under the development stage right now. 1k to 2k average at times, then at times as low as 200 to 300. Anyone else seeing this at all?

Are you planning on Pantheon?

Posted by zoon_unit on January 5, 2011 at 2:24pm

I'm using Ubuntu Lucid with 512 mb at the moment and have successfully installed the new Pantheon 1.2 using Borg's excellent repo. Can't speak to performance yet, because I'm still setting things up, but if you plan on installing Pantheon, go with 64 bit, and if you can afford it, the 1024 profile.

Hey zoon_unit, thanks for the

Posted by Dokuro on January 5, 2011 at 2:34pm

Hey zoon_unit, thanks for the reply.

Why 64bit? I don't think that would be an advantage from what I read.

I was on 512, but ran into issues pretty bad. This is what aaron01 on IRC said about that.

IIRC we allocate 32mb to varnish by default on a 512 server. So this may cause problems...

I am thinking about building it out again on 1.2 on 1024, might try 1.2 on the same load I am on now first and see how it feels compared to 1.1.

Hit me back on that 64 vs 32 as I know that in general 32 is usually the better option for a vps server.

Im on a Linode 1536 And I

Posted by AntiNSA on January 5, 2011 at 7:14pm

Im on a Linode 1536

And I cant wait to try 1.2.........

I am installing a basic version on lamp, and then am going to try to restore my site from teh shared server I was kicked out of, then I am going to install the back up module, and back up a copy, install the 1.2 version, install the same mofule and try to restore the copy and see if it works....

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re: Im on a Linode 1536 And I

Posted by Greg Coit on January 6, 2011 at 6:34pm

Borgs repo of Pantheon seems to be designed for linode servers:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/115654

Greg

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Greg, you would suggest 64

Posted by Dokuro on January 6, 2011 at 8:43pm

Greg, you would suggest 64 bit?

re: Greg, you would suggest 64

Posted by Greg Coit on January 7, 2011 at 6:18pm

32 bit is better for smaller memory systems, and when we release AWS images, we make both 32 and 64 bit ones.

But I can tell you that the getpantheon.com service is based on 64 bit.

Hope this helps,

Greg

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Can you define "smaller

Posted by Dokuro on January 10, 2011 at 2:32am

Can you define "smaller memory systems"?

a 32bit os cant use more than

Posted by ddorian on January 14, 2011 at 7:38pm

a 32bit os cant use more than 3.4( or 4 or near that number)gb ram. So if u have 6gb ram go 64 bit. If u have 2 and plan on growing go 64. If u have <=3gb and not plan on growing go 32bit

Yeah, the limitation of 32 vs

Posted by Dokuro on January 15, 2011 at 2:50am

Yeah, the limitation of 32 vs 64 when it comes to ram is pretty understood, so we are saying anything under 4 gb or ram should go on 32 bit?

This can't be the only reason for this correct? I will do some searching to find out more. Up until now, it has just been "Go with 32 bit for servers" I have never really clearly dug into the reason why, nor do I have anything with the need to be on more than 3 gb of ram. It would be fun to have something that did, but nothing as of yet.

Thanks for the reply! I will try and post back.

Big Drop in performance 1.2

Posted by Dokuro on January 12, 2011 at 5:37am

I saw a big drop in performance from 1.1 to 1.2 and even had more memory to work with.

Went from 1.3 sec load times to 3.4 sec, same server, same site, same everything but the vps instance was bigger.

Difference I did use was the 32 bit with 1.1 and 1.2 had 64 bit.

Anyone else notice this?

Can someone tell me how we

Posted by AntiNSA on January 12, 2011 at 6:16am

Can someone tell me how we can setup mercury to use all the available memory on our linode? I dont want to set any memory limit. I want it to use it all.

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mercury is not 1 program:

Posted by ddorian on January 15, 2011 at 10:54am

mercury is not 1 program: there are many(mysq,apache etc) so there should be free ram if u get for example unexcpeted logged in visits, correct me probably i'm wrong