[Archivesspace_Users_Group] RAM for ArchivesSpace server

Wed Sep 30 09:35:31 EDT 2020

To chime in on the original question, we had been running on 4 GB and found ourselves getting close to running out of RAM.  Upgrading to 8 GB seems to be a good sweet spot for us.  Thanks!

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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] RAM for ArchivesSpace server

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What version are you running?
Older (maybe about 2 years old or so) versions benefited from nightly or weekly restarts.
There's a chance it's stuck in an indexing loop, so just double check it's not always indexing, that can cause crashes as well.
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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] RAM for ArchivesSpace server

Thanks to all that responded. We have an issue where our AS instance slows down considerably after about a month of adding data (new collections, digital objects, a large number of accessions). After our systems person adds more RAM, the system speeds up considerably. I was wondering if we should add more RAM every three weeks. But it seems like, based on your answers, RAM might not be the source of our speed issue (but somehow connected?).

Any ideas on what might slow down loading time of records and search speed?

Jessika

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On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:38 PM Seth Shaw <seth.shaw at unlv.edu<mailto:seth.shaw at unlv.edu>> wrote:
Agreed. We have 5GB for ArchivesSpace but we rarely touch even close to that except for really big jobs like generating PDFs of some of our massive finding aids (1k+ pages). We have 4 processors available but, again, with a lot of breathing room. That stated, we don't use the PUI.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 5:23 PM Blake Carver <blake.carver at lyrasis.org<mailto:blake.carver at lyrasis.org>> wrote:
That's more than enough for any site. 1/2 that is more than enough for most sites.
(I'm assuming Linux, not Windows)

If you're having problems with crashes with that much power behind your site, there might be something wrong.

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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] RAM for ArchivesSpace server

Hi all!

Will those who maintain your own on-site instance of ArchivesSpace share the memory specifications of your server?

Ours is:

16 GB ram, 11 GB assigned to AS. 6 cores (processors)

My very best,

Jessika

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