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Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:22:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I find out how much memory the kernel is using now?
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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> 
> I have a FreeBSD box configured (via sysctl) to allow for a large number of
> both open files (system-wide) and also for a large number of open network
> connections (system-wide).
> 
> This box has very little running on it, only a few processes, the largest
> of which is about 5.5 megs (virtual), but I have 32 MB of physical memory
> in the box.
> 
> Still, the thing seems to be swapping like crazy.  Why?  I need to find out
> exactly why, and soon.

Run top and watch what turns to <brackets>.  <bracketed> processes are
swapped out.  Perhaps your huge process is leaking memory?

> number??  Is that really saying that I only have 3.8 MB left for user-level
> processes??

That isn't bad.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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