From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 06:50:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EF537B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hauptpostamt.charite.de (hauptpostamt.charite.de [193.175.66.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93FB243FB1 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:50:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexander.haderer@charite.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hauptpostamt.charite.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCBD15C012; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:50:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hauptpostamt.charite.de [127.0.0.1:10025]) (amavisd-new) with SMTP id 17207-09; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:49:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from postamt1.charite.de (postamt1.charite.de [193.175.66.246]) by hauptpostamt.charite.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4148715C00B; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:49:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from chaplin.charite.de (chaplin.str.charite.de [192.168.202.88]) by postamt1.charite.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1A3633AD; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:49:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.1.20030408154138.01a203a8@postamt1.charite.de> X-Sender: afrika@postamt1.charite.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:46:16 +0200 To: Borgmaster , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Alexander Haderer In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: Why has my swap pager gone nuts? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:50:10 -0000 At 15:30 08.04.2003 +0200, Borgmaster wrote: >Hi, > >When I try this, X is disabled but some daemons are running, such as >Samba, ntpd, linux emulation, etc. Top reports ~430Mb free. I have 512Mb >RAM in the machine and 256Mb swap partition. I know that one is supposed >to have twice swap as physical RAM, but is that really necessary on my >single user workstation? 1.5G of total memory is twice the memory I have >in some other servers... Where does this 1.5G come from? I see 512MB RAM +256MB swap. Nevertheless: top can show you the processes running, ordered by memory usage: top -o size With this command you should be able to find your memory eater(s). with best regards, Alexander -- Alexander Haderer Charite Berlin - Germany