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Date:      Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:43:51 +0200
From:      Mark Huizer <freebsd@xaa.iae.nl>
To:        groggy@iname.com, freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: squid VM
Message-ID:  <19981002204351.B537@xaa.iae.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981002014505.919B-100000@abc.xyz.net>; from groggy@iname.com on Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 01:50:57AM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981002014505.919B-100000@abc.xyz.net>

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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...

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