mysql is optimized using a collection of tipps from several vB forums (com org etc

) - the standard setup without caching did a good job before 3.5 so I was simply too lazy to do this earlier...
We do not have any acceleration addons yet however I want to take a look at the template cache plugin when it's ready to store them in the memory and not on the hdd.
Perhaps I should also take a loop at php caching or precompiled php...
Since we have only one gig of ram and the mrtg shows that it's always full while the system is swapping things out - should we first upgrade ram?