RAM issue

September 14, 2013 3.2k views
pcristian06
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pcristian06
My droplet keeps getting out of memory , i vahe the 2gb vps , my website dosen't gets so much traffic i don't know why this happens maybe i need a cron job to free the ram i currently have 2 phpbb's and 1 ipb hosted with zpanel .... Can someone help me with a solution? i'm not sa advanced in linux. The OS is CentOS 6
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kamaln7 MOD September 14, 2013
What do you mean by My droplet keeps getting out of memory? Do programs keep crashing ?
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pcristian06 September 14, 2013
My website goes down , the droplet is on but tells me someting like: Out of memory... and i must reboot the droplet in order to fix the issue
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kamaln7 MOD September 14, 2013
Try adding swap: 


echo "vm.swappiness=0" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.cnf

sudo sysctl -p

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=256k

sudo mkswap /swapfile

sudo chown root:root /swapfile 

sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile

sudo swapon /swapfile

echo "/swapfile       none    swap    sw      0       0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab


That should fix the running out of memory issues.
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pcristian06 September 14, 2013
Done , i will see if still gets me the out of memory error...
What about standby when is idle ? how can i deactivate that ?

Sorry for my bad english
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kamaln7 MOD September 14, 2013
I'm not sure what you're referring to -- what does What about standby when is idle ? mean?
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pcristian06 September 14, 2013
I think that my vps automatically turns in stand by mode when is idle how can i see/configure the settings in centos 6 ?
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kamaln7 MOD September 15, 2013 
I think that my vps automatically turns in stand by mode when is idle


That shouldn't happen by default. Do you have any logs that show it happening?
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