From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 12 13:08:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCE616A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:08:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server.tcslea.org (server.tcslea.org [205.238.132.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4BC43D2D for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:08:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdnewbie@coolarrow.com) X-ExtScanner: Niversoft's FindAttachments (free) Antivirus: scanned using cgpav with clamav Received: from [205.238.178.74] (HELO system) by server.tcslea.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b5) with ESMTP id 351870 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 07:50:47 -0500 Message-ID: <200406120750460729.2E42D6A3@coolarrow.com> X-Mailer: Courier 3.50.00.09.1098 (http://www.rosecitysoftware.com) (P) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 07:50:46 -0500 From: "Chris" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: swap size and zombie X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:08:50 -0000 *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Looking at a web/email server with the following from "top" ... last pid: 29494; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 85+12:33:05= 23:07:44 39 processes: 1 running, 37 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100%= idle Mem: 197M Active, 545M Inact, 176M Wired, 51M Cache, 112M Buf, 33M Free Swap: 2048M Total, 184K Used, 2048M Free Does it look like the swap file is way too big? The box has been online for= awhile, yet it seems like the swap file is not utilized very much at all.= For that matter, the server is clearly overpowered for what it does, but= better than underpowered I suppose. Also, I cannot seem to get rid of that zombie... it happens at boot time: root 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? ZW - 0:00.00 (perl) Thanks, Chris _________________________________________________________ Email harvesters eat this: sendjunkmailhere@coolarrow.com