From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 12 5:44:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fe080.worldonline.dk (fe080.worldonline.dk [212.54.64.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1236837BBF2 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 05:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jacob.lorensen@e-postboks.dk) Received: (qmail 12149 invoked by uid 0); 12 Jun 2000 12:44:22 -0000 Received: from 4.ppp1-32.worldonline.dk (HELO pippin.jblhome.ping.dk) (212.54.93.132) by fe080.worldonline.dk with SMTP; 12 Jun 2000 12:44:22 -0000 Received: (from jacob@localhost) by pippin.jblhome.ping.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA04694; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:26:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jacob) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. 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> From: Jacob Bohn Lorensen Date: 12 Jun 2000 14:26:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: Matthew Dillon's message of "Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:46:03 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <87g0qj2ihr.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk> Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon 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. -- Jacob Lorensen; Mosebuen 33, 1.; DK-2820 Gentofte, Denmark; +45 39560401 PGPid: 0x752EB4DE Fingerprint: F609A0BAFF393EA904F7-F344680F8EED752EB4DE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message