Without some GC tuning active seaside images have a tendency to grow,  
versus not grow. Say 350MB (default), versus 60MB (tuned)
See notes about GC tuning I posted a month or so in the past.

On Dec 13, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Cees de Groot wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:13:00 -0600, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> On a related note I expect any prospective hosting company providing  
>> an
>> inexpensive service would appreciate a standardized custom Seaside  
>> image
>> that provides the desired functionality with minimal RAM usage.
>
> Make that minimal CPU usage :-). Squeak server images and the virtual  
> machine have a tendency to eat cycles...
>
>
>> Of course on a shared server shared memory should help and perhaps  
>> some
>> statistics on this would be useful.
>>
> Hmm...
>
> lnx-4:~# free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers      
> cached
> Mem:       1033536     994216      39320          0       5072      
> 888740
> -/+ buffers/cache:     100404     933132
> Swap:      2000084      51996    1948088
>
> This machine is currently running 11 UML machines (among them the  
> Squeak Foundation machine). Memory is not a very big problem...
>
>
>
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