Memory Usage

Hello guys,

in my oppinion Dolphin is using too much memory.

my question is - how do you guys handle it for your developed websites with a lot of onine visitors.

is it taking up to 160M or 256M per user?! Isn't that too much?

Cheers!

dolphin does require a great deal of resources. exactly the extent of the requirement has yet to be revealed.

though i can tell you that where i have experienced dolphin 7.0.x sites with 3000+ members and up to 125 online at the same time.

load was below 1, its a quad-core with 8GB ram.

ram gets used by the database and one of the cpu's is relatively used up by the database as well.

my.cnf has been optimized, though you are querying the database every nth/nthsec so the load on the database is presumed from the /flash/XML.php file which does the query for the updates on what has yet to be identified from the boonex staff.

there have been multiple discussions on this matter, with no real solution.

the best i can tell you based on experience, is that you need a server with some umph, and single-core 512mb RAM is not going to run dolphin. I would recommend minimum dual-core and 2GB RAM

and that is just to get you started. as your membership base increases, so should the horsepower in which you are running your site from.

Hello ,

Thanks for your reply!

I am using could hosting - CPU is not an issue , since I do not pay for it and usually i am having 1% usage - anyway I think the hosting is taking care of that, since it is not included in the price package.

Currently I am on 2GB memory and I can increase it basically by pressing a button on my admin panel.

Still, 125 users online is a joke...I know a website with 5000 users online...how are they managing the load.

Isnt there optimization package or something?Are you guys saying that in the dolphin community there are no websites with thousands of users online?

How much resources are needed for that?

I mean - I could afford 16GB of RAM but would that be enough and for how many users online?

so why do you guys bother to put money into a community cms that cannot handle 1K users online?

or if you cannot get 1K users online, why bother doing community website?

is dolphin for tiny local communities?!