From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 00:57:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA17743 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line8.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.123]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA17713 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:57:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA01218; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:57:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Julian Elischer cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trimming RAM usage on FreeBSD box In-Reply-To: <323CEEFC.2781E494@whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Julian Elischer wrote: > I have a small FreeBSD box that has 8MB of ram > it is running a few servers that seem to > use all it's RAM so I end up thrashing to the point that > it becomes unusable.. (login takes about 15 minutes) As a final note: Buy RAM. It's cheap! Bump it to 16 MB or more and you should be one happy guy and have one happy server. Should only set you back about $60. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major