Blog web server upgrade
I have completed a simple upgrade to the little box that serves my blogs. I have increased its RAM from 16 gigabytes to 64 gigabytes.
I had observed some page loading slow-downs under some conditions recently. My quick review gave me the idea that some of the blogs processes might be a bit starved for memory. Too much of the system’s work seemed to be regularly swapped to virtual memory swap (SSD), a condition generally to be avoided.
The change in memory capacity and process configuration seems to have made the blogs a bit more responsive. However, it appears that most of the slow rendering I’ve noted relates more to Safari behaviour with the content of the site than with any shortcomings of my server hardware.
I’ve included some more detail below the ‘Read More’ fold for those who are interested.
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