From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 05:11:06 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 DF12437B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:11:06 -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 CA3BB43FDD for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@vipersystems.biz) Received: (qmail 83341 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 12:11:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vipersystems.biz) (127.0.0.1) by 127.0.0.1 with SMTP; 27 Jun 2003 12:11:05 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.150 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jason@vipersystems.biz) by www.vipersystems.biz with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:11:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1166.192.168.1.150.1056715865.squirrel@www.vipersystems.biz> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:11:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jason Lieurance" To: 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: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:11:07 -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 and now today it's up to 12. Is this a concern or is it nothing? Our system is a DNS, web, and email server. Thanks. -- Jason