At a time 1000 users will be participating on my MediaWiki, how many processors and RAM should i need for trouble free accessing?
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Thank you Malyacko, but how much load does 256 MB of RAM takes, I mean how many users can use that website at a time?
it depends on a lot of factors, what type of caching is setup, what extensions are installed, if the server is also running other services (e.g. your db or your memcached), how "at the same time" do you mean by at the same time, etc.
I would suggest experimenting and seeing.
From my own tests, only 256MB is not going to be enough for a wiki of any size. As the installation requirements say:
- ..this will not suffice for a busy public site or a site with uploading enabled.
A decent modern wiki with the various services that it needs should really have at least 1GB of ram and probably 4GBs.