Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:30:24 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Steven <steven@trance.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Limiting resources Message-ID: <20010113203024.A8563@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLBKNKLDHDLHHPODBAEOGCLAA.steven@trance.org>; from "Steven" on Sun Jan 14 01:56:10 GMT 2001 References: <NEBBLBKNKLDHDLHHPODBAEOGCLAA.steven@trance.org>
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In the last episode (Jan 14), Steven said: > my 4.1 machine is set up to analyse its logs at 1.53am each night. > > All is great, but it uses up so much resources (the harddisk light is > constantly flashing for minutes) that it stops routing (nat), which > kind of defeats the machine's purpose. That shouldn't happen unless your system is so short of RAM that it has to swap everything out including running processes. What kind of log analysis do you do, and what does 'top' show during that time? Keep an eye on the "Swap" line at the top of the screen. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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