From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 2 05:15:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA08703 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 05:15:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hercules.orion.ab.ca (hercules.orion.ab.ca [207.134.218.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA08692 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 05:15:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from timp@orion.ab.ca) Received: from tpushor.shl.com (wsprr7-069.mcit.com [166.44.155.69]) by hercules.orion.ab.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA29713 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 07:09:23 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <00cd01be0661$d37c84e0$459b2ca6@tpushor.shl.com> From: "Tim Pushor" To: Subject: question about 'top' Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 06:07:30 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00CA_01BE0627.13046960" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00CA_01BE0627.13046960 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I have a question regarding the 'top' program included in FreeBSD. I am = interested to see what resources are used by which process. I am running = a server process that forks itself for every request, and am interested = to know how much memory is being used by this process. I am assuming = this would be the 'RES' column. I see sendmail 8.9.1 appears to use on = the order of one megabyte per process. Does this seem reasonable? This = would mean that to run 50 sendmail 'children' concurrently it would = require ~50 megabytes for data, plus stack and text area. Am I on the right track? Thanks, Tim ------=_NextPart_000_00CA_01BE0627.13046960 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

I have a question regarding the 'top' program = included in=20 FreeBSD. I am interested to see what resources are used by which = process. I am=20 running a server process that forks itself for every request, and am = interested=20 to know how much memory is being used by this process. I am assuming = this would=20 be the 'RES' column. I see sendmail 8.9.1 appears to use on the order of = one=20 megabyte per process. Does this seem reasonable? This would mean that to = run 50=20 sendmail 'children' concurrently it would require ~50 megabytes for = data, plus=20 stack and text area.

Am I on the right track?

Thanks,

Tim

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