From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 11:26:32 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 D703837B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from redhat.vipersystems.biz (user198.net263.oh.sprint-hsd.net [208.17.71.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78EC543FB1 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@vipersystems.biz) Received: (qmail 16832 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2003 18:26:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vipersystems.biz) (127.0.0.1) by 127.0.0.1 with SMTP; 26 Jun 2003 18:26:30 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.150 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jason@vipersystems.biz) by www.vipersystems.biz with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:26:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <2268.192.168.1.150.1056651990.squirrel@www.vipersystems.biz> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:26:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jason Lieurance" To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.12[cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: vmstat question 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: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:26:33 -0000 Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.7 on a P3 933mhz, 18 GB U320 HD, Adaptec 29160 controller, and 512 MB DDR ram. When I ran vmstat -w 3 the b under processes shows a constant 10 forever. Is this a concern or is it nothing? Our system is a DNS, web, and email server. Thanks. -- Jason