How many percentages of free RAM should I have on a VPS?

JoeTaxpayer · Jun 23, 2017

I am trying to set up a website on a new VPS and after transfered the site to it, i check with command free - m as some guys suggested here, its telling me I used 70% ram usage on whole server. I feel my website is running slowly now, I want to know how many percentages of free RAM should I have on my VPS to help it run smoothly?

24x7CSM · Jun 23, 2017

Well , What is the VPS configuration ? , are you hosting multiple websites on it ? what cache technology are you using ? is the server optimized ?

share the above details and you will have to do the analysis of the above things too.

isix · Jun 23, 2017

JoeTaxpayer said:
I am trying to set up a website on a new VPS and after transfered the site to it, i check with command free - m as some guys suggested here, its telling me I used 70% ram usage on whole server. I feel my website is running slowly now, I want to know how many percentages of free RAM should I have on my VPS to help it run smoothly?

If your site is running slow, it could have many other reasons just like the RAM. 4 GB should be enough to run many sites, WP, ecommerce etc. The main reason could be wrong configured VPS (DB server, httpd, etc.)

Denis // trabia · Jun 29, 2017

JoeTaxpayer said:
I am trying to set up a website on a new VPS and after transfered the site to it, i check with command free - m as some guys suggested here, its telling me I used 70% ram usage on whole server. I feel my website is running slowly now, I want to know how many percentages of free RAM should I have on my VPS to help it run smoothly?

Post please the output of 'free -m' and 'uptime' commands.

LJSHost · Jun 30, 2017

You need to understand if you already do not, how Linux uses RAM.

Linux likes to take as much RAM as possible to use for cache as it far faster than accessing data from disk even SSD but gives it back to the system when a program needs it.

Past your free -m output and I'll show you the true figure of your available RAM

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