Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 15:31:40 -0500 From: lambert@warped.cswnet.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 256MB mail server with 190+MB inactive? Message-ID: <199905041449.5717287.6@warped.cswnet.com>
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Hi guys, I've run into something I don't understand. I have replaced a 64MB mail server running 2.1.6 with a 256MB server running 3.1-19990218-STABLE. The 64MB system was running about 9MB into swap at all times and used 20 - 25MB for cache, ~23MB active, 10-15MB wired, and between 490K and 3MB free. The rest was inact or buf. We had a few problems with users timing out while checking their mail. The 256MB server went up this morning and is seeing real load for the first time. It hung after 5 hours of uptime. We had to push the reset button to recover. It was still responding to pings and would switch between virtual consoles. You could enter a username at the login prompt but would not get a password prompt. Ctrl-Alt-Del did not work to reload the box. Now it's back up and has been up for 3:30. Current memory stats from top are: Mem: 23M Active, 189M Inact, 19M Wired, 12M Cache, 8330K Buf, 6512K Free 120 processes, 118 sleeping. The rpc.statd process shows to be using 257M with 468K resident. Most of the other processes are sendmail of sizes < 1532K. Where did all of my memory go? I've seen the archives stating that rpc.statd is known to show un-realistic virtual memory sizes in the 3.x tree. Also how do I set the video mode to 80x60? Thanks, Scott Lambert lambert@cswnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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