[Spce-user] To Upgrade or not ?

[Dave Massey]

On 2013-09-10, at 3:47 AM, Jon Bonilla (Manwe) <jbonilla at sipwise.com> wrote:

> El Mon, 9 Sep 2013 21:22:00 -0400
> Dave Massey <dave at optionsdsl.ca> escribió:
> 
> 
>>> There's no way to keep 2.6 upgraded as it's an EOL version. At the moment
>>> only 2.8 version is supported in 2.x branch and it will be for the
>>> following ~3 years. It is highly recommended to every 2.x user to move to
>>> 2.8 (or jump to 3.x).
>>> 
> 
>> 
>> Ok thanks.  I backup the whole system every night so I can rsync the whole
>> thing back just in case it goes really south. I dont think I can jump to 3.0
>> yet as the system that its running is on is barely the minimum specs, only
>> 2gb of ram.
>> 
> 
> 2GB of RAM is enough to run 2.x versions but maybe not enough for 3.x versions
> (I run it but people had problems with the same amount).
> 
> In 3.0 handbook we introduced some explanation regarding performance and RAM
> usage in the handbook. It might be useful for 2.X users too as most parameters
> are there.
> 
> http://www.sipwise.com/doc/3.0/spce/ar01s13.html#_system_requirements_and_performance
> 
> In your case, the config.yml option database→bufferpoolsize is probably set to
> 1GB while in 3.0 versions is lowered to 64MB(!). The reason is because we set
> 50% of the RAM for the MySQL buffer which makes a lot of sense in systems with
> plenty of RAM (we deliver our PRO systems with 16GB) but it's too much in your
> case.
> 
> Please take a look to the parameters if you need to free some resources.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Jon
> 

I just checked that setting, and:

database:
  bufferpoolsize: 2031M

As in all of my RAM?  I never modified this setting :/