I posted this to the forum and had one responseso far that basicvally said 3GB was fine. Any more "official" response? I read the low memory dosc and it seemd to imply that "low memory" was less than 256MB. From the forum post:
"I was wondering if anyone can suggest minimum specs for a VMIN system to run with reasonable speed under XEN (or VMWare)? I have run VMin under CentOS in Parallels on a Mac, so I know it will function in a virtual environment. What I'm trying to gage is how much resource I need to allocate under the virtual server to get a good runtime experience for VMin users. Sort of a tough question since I understand it would depend on the number sites, databases and so. Lets say something like this environment:
CentOS 5.X One of the two cores on a Sunfire 2100 M2 (Next-Generation AMD Opteron 1.8 GHz) 3GB RAM 500GB Drive space Maybe 150 virtual sites No mail lists There will be MySQL usage ... mostly constrained to installed options (WordPress, perhaps Drupal, PHPScheduleIt ...) vs user created databases"
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Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 07/30/2009 - 13:30 Comment #1
In my experience, 256M is the minimum RAM needed to run Virtualmin - but even that depends on which server processes you will be running. If you don't care about virus filtering, you can save a lot of RAM by turning off ClamAV in the initial installation wizard (or on the Spam and Virus Scanning page). Also, turning off pre-loading of libraries by Virtualmin gains RAM but at the cost of responsiveness of the UI. If you want a fully-loaded Virtualmin system with reasonable responsiveness, I would recommend 512M though.
As for disk space, 2GB is the minimum needed for an install, but to actually host large user websites you'll need more than that - it really depends on exactly how much you want to host.
Also, have a look at : http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,virtualmin_on_low_memory_syst...
Submitted by Issues on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:18 Comment #2
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