Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:54:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: Borgmaster <ribo6611@student.uu.se> To: Alexander Haderer <alexander.haderer@charite.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why has my swap pager gone nuts? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.53.0304081553140.1798@trana.it.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.1.20030408154138.01a203a8@postamt1.charite.de> References: <5.2.0.9.1.20030408154138.01a203a8@postamt1.charite.de>
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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
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