Memory Usage + Database Configuration

Friday 26 December 2003 10:20:12 pm

Hello,

I just installed eZ-publish 3.3-1. I'm running:
FreeBSD 5.1-release
Apache 2.0.48
PHP 4.3.4
PostgreSQL 7.4.1

In order to get eZ-publish to run, I had to edit php.ini to increase memory_limit to 12M (from 8M).

First: Is this expected? That seems like a lot of memory.

Second: If this is expected, it would probably be a good idea to make a note of this in the installation documentation. I'm no PHP guru and figuring this out took me quite a while, and during that time eZ-publish didn't make a very good impression.

ALSO:

I followed the instructions per setting up the database ... but when I got to the screen where it asked for the database name, it said the database already contained data. I told it to delete the data and it worked ... but why did it give me this message?

Saturday 27 December 2003 2:40:25 am

You may need even more memory in other situations.

For a large server where also large pdf files need to be indexed, I had to raise the memory to 128MB

-paul

eZ Publish, eZ Find, Solr expert consulting and training
http://twitter.com/paulborgermans

Saturday 27 December 2003 3:04:39 am

The memory requirement information was missing - I've added it to the docs now:

http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/installation/normal_installation/requirements_for_doing_a_normal_installation

Again, thanks for telling.

Balazs