Hey guys im going to put webmin on a vps. do any of you know the average amount of resources it uses? thank you

In comparison to cPanel, Webmin uses signficantly less resources then cPanel. In fact, its resource usage is barely noticeable (once again, coming from a heavy cPanel user).

Webmin takes about 15MB of RAM on the 32bit system I tried it out on.

ok thank you. hypervm is gone and lxadmin from fsckvps so I went to look for a free alternative. I made a program that has no security bugs that I have found yet I am going to send them that does reboots. wonder if they will put it in untill everything they have is fixed.



thanks for the reply, what does cpanel use for resources? I am using a modifyed version and it goes to about 2gb ram

The VPS optimized version uses significantly less, however an out of box VPS build using a basic apache setup on a VPS hovers around the 230MB mark or more.

For a dedicated box, I'm not sure, as we run prefork/worker, which jacks up memory usage, not to mention we really don't track "memory usage" on our servers, since we never get close to reaching their limits since each server has 32GB of RAM ;)

The VPS optimized version uses significantly less, however an out of box VPS build using a basic apache setup on a VPS hovers around the 230MB mark or more.

For a dedicated box, I'm not sure, as we run prefork/worker, which jacks up memory usage, not to mention we really don't track "memory usage" on our servers, since we never get close to reaching their limits since each server has 32GB of RAM ;)

wow mind telling me where you colocate or host/ im thinking about getting a vps from you just from the amount of ram there is lol.



my custom cpanel/whm install useses 2gb+ and I was thinking of removing the mods so I can optimize things a bit better

Your memory usage has very little to do with the control panel you choose - it depends almost entirely on the software you run, how you configure it and how much traffic you get. ie. If your needs include Apache, MySQL, PHP, Exim, SpamAssassin etc. etc. in a certain configuration, and your usage is 2GB under cPanel, it will also be 2GB with the same configuration under webmin/virtualmin, DA or any other panel you choose to use.

So don't expect a different panel to change your memory use for you. Instead look at optimising your configuration to suit your specific requirements (traffic, type of website etc.)

Your memory usage has very little to do with the control panel you choose - it depends almost entirely on the software you run, how you configure it and how much traffic you get. ie. If your needs include Apache, MySQL, PHP, Exim, SpamAssassin etc. etc. in a certain configuration, and your usage is 2GB under cPanel, it will also be 2GB with the same configuration under webmin/virtualmin, DA or any other panel you choose to use.

So don't expect a different panel to change your memory use for you. Instead look at optimising your configuration to suit your specific requirements (traffic, type of website etc.)
but cpanel uses alot of memory just by itself.
the 2gb is from the mods i have on cpanel. removing them drops it alot.

Run ps aux and count up the memory used by "cpanel itself". I only remember cpservd (about 10MB?) but if it runs any other daemons they'll most likely be called cpsomethingd. Apart from those and a few MB for system processes, all the rest of your memory usage is the applications you're running.

What exactly are the cpanel mods? More applications?