From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 31 11:18:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD7914D6E for ; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:18:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id GAA22586; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 06:18:14 +1100 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA07802; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 20:17:33 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 19:10:15 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Marc Schneiders Cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4 MB RAM? (long) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: > There is 24 MB of swap. I have looked at top a number of times and > there was only little of it used. Maybe the daily checks take a lot of > it? I will throw them out first and see what happens. I think you mention that this machine has 2 drives - if so, it might be worth the pain to rearrange your partitioning so that the swap is spread equally over both drives, as I understand that FreeBSD interleaves access to swap (probably works better with SCSI than IDE though...). You mention that your current kernel is ~1.5M - just for reference I have a 2.2.6R server (486) with a ~1.15M kernel (2.2.6R GENERIC is ~1.5M) and a 3.2R SMP workstation (C300Ax2) with a ~1.75M kernel (3.2R GENERIC is ~2.3M). Both boxes have a trimmed config, though the 3.2 box has sound and a couple of other "extras". -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message