Hi all...
As subject, I'm curious to know how you will use the 42% of increased RAM.

I'm thinking to add a virus filter to my email server and you?

I may switch to xubuntu or kubuntu as my GUI desktop for remote software development. Right now I'm using IceWM since it is so very light on memory consumption at 5.8 Meg resident, but the menus do not automatically sync with ubuntu.

James
http://zunzun.com

Bump up APC's and MySQL's cache sizes a bit, and leave rest to the disk cache.

Yeah I'm going to undo the memory changes I made to /etc/mysql/my.cnf and bump that sucker back up.

Thanks to suggestions in this thread, I've also bumped up my mysql cache settings.

Happy 7th Birthday Linode

Probably mysql as well, the rest to be left as a cache.

So, no new additional service on your node with a big improvements like that?

After reading these posts, how does one bump up SQL and the disk cache? Which settings are you all going to look at?

I just rebooted a few minutes ago.

Not at the moment, I'm sure in a few weeks I'll find something new to experiment with.

if you want, remember to share this experiment with us.

Here you can find a simple guide on how to do that,
don't use big numbers when caching mysql if you have no reason to do it.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/enable-th ... mance.html

Disk caching?
You can't manage/configure it, in few words, the free ram is used to cache something that may be useful by the system because free ram is wasted ram.

I will use it... to take over the world!
... and also mysql/ apache

Well, yes and no. No new processes running, but it'll definitely allow me to hang more web apps off it while keeping the performance as it was before.

I will install Jetty or Tomcat (I am still deciding and I am opened to suggestions) in order to use Solr in my Drupal sites. I also installed nginx as a front-end for apache with mod_php and I am very close to buy a new linode and spread out my applications on both of them.

yes, I will try to switch to tomcat, this is in the kitchen but it will require a lot of work.

will you buy a second linode for redundancy only?
I'm also thinking to buy a second node to be located in europe.