[TYPO3] Typo3 Taking too much memory?

[Olaf Bottek]

Amir M. wrote:
> Hmm, for some reason I am thinking that Typo3 takes up too much mysql 
> memory.  Is this true?  My hosts contacted me telling me I should 
> upgrade my VPS, because I am surpassing my Mysql memory limits.  But 
> then I think, how?  I am by no means a large website, my forums is not 
> too large - it's size can fit easily in a shared hosting package.  Then 
> what is the problem?  Could it be Typo3?
> 
> Is this true that Typo3 takes up lots of mysql processess and memory? 
> How can I relieve this?  Is there a solution?  If this is indeed the 
> case, how do you guys deal with this?  If it is the case, I would assume 
> people need several servers to run a typo3 site... :(

Well Typo3 uses persistent mysql connections, this reduces already to 
load with opening and closing mysql connections. In general VPS are kind 
of tricky, I think. I visited the website of your provider. They are 
talking about minimum Dual Xeon 3 GHz with 8 GB RAM. For the VPS they 
guarantee 256 of RAM and 10 GB of harddisk. That sounds to me like they 
would place 16 VPS onto one such server.

So while on a shared hosted server you would have a mixture of more or 
less heavier used websites, you will have more extensive used websites 
or sites, that use more and non-default system settings. And everybody 
is trying to get most out of the promised highest cpu and memory of course.

Your website, which seams to run on a VPS already by now, semans also 
not very fast. You could try to reduce extensions - that will speed up 
Typo3 in general and reduces mysql connections.

Greetings,
Olaf Bottek