Date: 12 Jun 2000 14:26:08 +0200 From: Jacob Bohn Lorensen <jacob.lorensen@e-postboks.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. Message-ID: <87g0qj2ihr.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk> In-Reply-To: Matthew Dillon's message of "Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:46:03 -0700 (PDT)" References: <14660.3153.658226.142964@trooper.velocet.net> <200006112220.PAA29235@apollo.backplane.com> <14660.4950.94654.399889@trooper.velocet.net> <200006112246.PAA29392@apollo.backplane.com>
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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
Matthew> :Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot
Matthew> going on and a :lot using memory. I normally have about
Matthew> 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap :used... meaning that I have
Matthew> allocated roughly double my RAM in :applications. : :And
Matthew> when this worst-case happens, memory is full... but the
Matthew> only :active application is Netscape. : :On my home
Matthew> machine, the same thing tends to happen. It only has
Matthew> 128M :and vastly fewer things going on. I see cases were
Matthew> I'm surfing for :20-30 minutes and I will hit this 10 to
Matthew> 30 second (longer, becase the :swap at home is slower)
Matthew> gap in netscape response. : :The only other applications
Matthew> running would be something like a small :UUCP transfer or
Matthew> a small amount of NFS traffic when the wife's :(diskless)
Matthew> machine changes screensavers. : :Dave.
This may be a stupid suggestion, so please excuse me if it
is... but... have you checked process resource limits? Especially the
"memoryuse" parameter, I think, tells the system how large a working
set you will allow each process.
Regards,
Jacob.
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