From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 23: 2:56 2002 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 7D7D637B401 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 23:02:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from spf1.us.outblaze.com (205-158-62-139.outblaze.com [205.158.62.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C090643EB2 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 23:02:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from franklin_pierce@operamail.com) Received: (qmail 12348 invoked from network); 26 Dec 2002 07:02:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (205.158.62.68) by 205-158-62-139.outblaze.com with QMQP; 26 Dec 2002 07:02:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 8276 invoked from network); 26 Dec 2002 06:58:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com) (205.158.62.131) by 205-158-62-153.outblaze.com with SMTP; 26 Dec 2002 06:58:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 28270 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Dec 2002 06:31:42 -0000 Message-ID: <20021226063142.28269.qmail@operamail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [65.28.10.43] by ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com with http for franklin_pierce@operamail.com; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:31:42 -0600 From: "Franklin Pierce" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:31:42 -0600 Subject: Re: ram & swap & whiskers on kittens X-Originating-Ip: 65.28.10.43 X-Originating-Server: ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: David Nicholas Kayal Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:19:17 -0800 (PST) To: Charlie Root Subject: Re: ram & swap > First . . . [most of the top post snipped] > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Charlie Root wrote: > > > Hey why everything on my machine goes into RAM? i have always 87% ram > > taken by every proccess running... i have 91 megs of ram.... what should > > i do? my swap is always empty... [snip] Swap: that's good. RAM: Excellent! When your machine isn't using all of its delicious and spicy RAM it steals some for buffering (to gerundise agressively) disk writes. Once she gets a tad more loaded, she'll just stop buffering so aggres- sively. It really isn't good, per se, to be using swap, it's just a cheaper fallback than getting more RAM/a motherboard that can take more RAM/hosed by $RETAILER. Since I have no idea how it works I won't go into any particulars, but if you ever want to hear about why we let Kansas vote on becoming a free or slave state, and why the compromise was made to appease the southern Democrats, drop me a line. Love, Franklin Pierce -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message