From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 2 11:44:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16212 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:44:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl (esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl [194.151.75.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16201 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:44:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@xaa.iae.nl) Received: from ariel.xaa.iae.nl (ariel.xaa.iae.nl [194.151.75.10]) by esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl (VMailer) with ESMTP id 272564ED; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:43:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by ariel.xaa.iae.nl (VMailer, from userid 1008) id CCB424444; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:43:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19981002204351.B537@xaa.iae.nl> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:43:51 +0200 From: Mark Huizer To: groggy@iname.com, freebsd-questions Subject: Re: squid VM References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from groggy@iname.com on Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 01:50:57AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 01:50:57AM -0800, groggy@iname.com wrote: > > i notice as time goes on, > my machine uses more and more > VM. i allocated 800M of cache > to squid (2.2.7). at this point, > the cache has ~128M of data ... > > my VM has gone from 0M used > (when the system fired up) > to 21M of 128M "in use". > > my question is, will i run out > of VM before my cache fill up > to it's 800M capacity? > > i guess it could be DNS swallowing > my VM, but before i ran squid, DNS > effects seemed to be negligible. > The least you could do is look at ps and see which process is taking the memory (or use top, or whatever). Otherwise you never know what it is. Also: used swapspace doesn't mean trouble. It could be pages that were swapped out but never returned to real memory because there was no need for it. Mark -- Nice testing in little China... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message