From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 30 11:16:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D99D15162 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 11:16:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28732; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 11:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 11:39:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "rick - SomersNet, Inc." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAM management In-Reply-To: <381B326D.B3DC9327@123HostIt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, rick - SomersNet, Inc. wrote: > what a day.... > > I am hoping someone will be able to help me with this problem. For some > reason when I try to untar files, the machine hangs.. I let this one > 850MB file untar over night and it still wasn't done by noon the next > day... The server's specs are fairly good... AMD 450, 256 MB ram, and > 10,000 RPM Ultra2 SCSI drive.. And the SCSI controller type? Btw, has this box run any other OS? or is it a first time FreeBSD install? Any console messages perhaps scsi errors? > for some reason though, it's not using all the ram... when I "top" it > says 25MB used, 229MB inact, and 616K free.. so I know that is the > problem.. it can't run right with only 616K free.. so how do I get it to > use the rest so it will work? Why doesn't it adjust automatically > depending on load? It does, the system attempts to keep a reserve of free memory in case something suddenly needs a lot. If there is ram unused then you don't need it. :) > and BTW.. I am a Linux guy trying to run FBSD for the first time... ;) Welcome aboard! -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message