From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 8 16:38:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA22670 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:38:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA22665 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:38:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@zeta.org.au) Received: from gurney.reilly.home (d25.syd2.zeta.org.au [203.26.11.25]) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA29995; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:32:12 +1000 Received: (from andrew@localhost) by gurney.reilly.home (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA20837; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:26:14 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Reilly Message-Id: <199710082326.JAA20837@gurney.reilly.home> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:26:14 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: Wheres all my memory going? To: dg@root.com cc: gordon@drogon.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710081356.GAA19466@implode.root.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 8 Oct, David Greenman wrote: >>Machine boots OK. I start named (8.1.1) and it initialises. However, after >>some time (a day or so) the machine start to run out of swap space. I only >>allocated 64M of swap. (Is this the problem?) What I can't figure out is >>where the memory is going. Output of 'top -b' shows: > > Yes, you need more swap than you have RAM...this is very important to > avoid problems. Does that mean that it is not possible to run a FreeBSD system without swap at all? I can think of a number of situations (mostly kind of embedded) where you can arrange to satisfy all of the memory requirements with RAM, but don't want to add a disk or use a network for swap. -- Andrew "The steady state of disks is full." -- Ken Thompson