From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 06:54:53 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 A767837B405 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from meryl.it.uu.se (meryl.it.uu.se [130.238.12.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B5443FB1 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:54:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ribo6611@student.uu.se) Received: from trana.it.uu.se (daemon@trana.it.uu.se [130.238.9.155]) by meryl.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA08566; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:54:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (ribo6611@localhost) by trana.it.uu.se (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h38Dsj02001824; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:54:45 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: trana.it.uu.se: ribo6611 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:54:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: Borgmaster X-X-Sender: ribo6611@trana.it.uu.se To: Alexander Haderer In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.1.20030408154138.01a203a8@postamt1.charite.de> Message-ID: References: <5.2.0.9.1.20030408154138.01a203a8@postamt1.charite.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 13:54:54 -0000 On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Alexander Haderer wrote: > 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. 1.5G if I would have 512RAM + twice that in swap. Seems overkill to me... > 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). Thank you very much. I'll try that as soon as I get home. Best regards, Rickard Borgm=E4ster