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jrhay

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memory requirements
August 21, 2008, 09:37:20 pm
A client is looking to install civicrm and has advised me that the
software requires the availability of 64 MB memory.  64 MB is a lot of
memory for a script to use and to allow that for each script running at
any given time has the potential to eat a lot of memory on a busy server
or if a script is not well written.

Could someone please let me know why civicrm requires 64 MB of memory to
be available and why I should not be concerned about this on a production
server?

Thanks.

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Re: memory requirements
August 22, 2008, 10:02:38 am
We have been making memory usage improvements steadily over the past several releases (as we also add functionality). However, CiviCRM is a complex application. As noted in the latest blog post (http://civicrm.org/node/430) - there are ~4,000 sites running CiviCRM 2.0. Of course the size of their database and the number of users accessing it is wildly variable - so your best bet is to try and get feedback from folks whose site have characteristics similar to what you're expecting (post that here). Then ask them about their server hardware / software config and performance.
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Re: memory requirements
August 29, 2008, 07:48:45 pm
jrhay,

I'm my experience, 64MB is a bare minimum, if not for CiviCRM/PHP, but for MySQL. I have a client with a Drupal+CiviCRM installation that exists solely for CiviMail (no other Drupal modules, no other Civi Components) and it had frequent trouble until I increased the available server memory to 128MB. The installation sends 40,000 - 50,000 emails per month, and has 68,000 contacts.

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