I suspect it depends on the number of subscribers. I have 2 lists,
each has 20 people on, and the whole server has 512mb of RAM on a VPS.
Server also runs Apache for some very low load sites and is usually
30% RAM free - Linux with no desktop.

On 5 March 2015 at 15:16, Ronald Beatteay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Moshe,
>
> We have a 5 point license, and currently host 3 lists, two of
> them pretty active.  Not nearly the demand that you have.
> Still, I'm upgrading my VPS hosting plan to include 4 GB in
> Ram.  I'm hoping to have the listserv upgraded by the end
> of the month, if not sooner.
>
> Ron
>
> ________________________________
> From: Moshe Barak <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 10:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Listserv Upgrade
>
> Depending on the number of lists you have, we with some 5k of them found
> that a unix virtual machine
> was doing much better with 8 GB. We started with 4GB and then upgraded,
> which is easy on  virtual
> macine.. that happened recently with the upgrade from 15.5 to 16.0
> ciao..
> /Moshe
>
>
>
> On Mar 4, 2015, at 22:32, Ron Beatteay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Jacob,  I'll be home soon and I'll
> work on it.  I'm told I should upgrade my
> hosting plan to include at least 4 gigs of
> Ram.   I'm using 1 gig now.  So I'll have
> to migrate operations to a new server
> first.  I have a VPS server with a few .coms
> there now,  so lots more than just the
> listserv to migrate.
>
> Ron
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 4, 2015, at 3:13 PM, Jacob Haller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Jacob Haller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Ron Beatteay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I'm preparing for a listserv upgrade,, from version 15.
> I was hoping to install a test version for a month to try
> it out. But I couldn't extract the files to do an installation.
> My normal extraction program wouldn't recognize the
> file downloaded.
>
>
> What platform are you installing LISTSERV on?
>
>
> I think you might be using some variety of Unix.  In this case, there’s two
> ways you can install LISTSERV.
>
> If you’re using the .bin file, then that file isn’t actually intended to be
> extracted.  It’s an executable, and you would use it to install LISTSERV
> using the instructions at
> http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/install/LISTSERV16.0_InstallManual_UNIXSimplified.htm
> , rather than running some uncompression utility on it.
>
> If you’re using the .tar.Z files, then you should be able to extract them
> using the uncompress and tar commands as described at
> http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/install/LISTSERV16.0_InstallManual_UNIX.htm#_Toc290567944
> .  If this isn’t working, then can you give the exact commands you’re using
> to extract the files, and the errors that are resulting?
>
> -jwgh
>
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