From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 20 10:01:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7697016A405 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:01:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from lists.lc-words.com (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F70B13C442 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:01:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists.lc-words.com) by lists.lc-words.com with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1H8D23-0006hg-6a for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:01:07 +0100 Received: from 192.168.11.7 (SquirrelMail authenticated user zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) by lists.lc-words.com with HTTP; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:01:07 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <60565.192.168.11.7.1169287267.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> In-Reply-To: <20070120085802.GA5216@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <60131.192.168.11.7.1169279847.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <20070120080417.GA4365@xor.obsecurity.org> <60303.192.168.11.7.1169280828.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <20070120085137.GA5113@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070120085802.GA5216@xor.obsecurity.org> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:01:07 +0100 (CET) From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: virtual memory management X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:01:19 -0000 Dear Kris and all, >> I see lots of them; every one in that list is contributinig. If you >> add up all those process sizes you'll see where the space is going. > > By which I mean the difference between size and res, which indicates > the amount of process memory allocated but not currently resident in > RAM. This isn't a foolproof method (see e.g. the FAQ entry on > rpc.statd), but it's true in your case. > >> Basically you are just overloading your system by trying to run too >> much at once. Reduce the load or add more RAM. The problem is I cannot add more RAM (too old machine to do that) but I know what to do to decrease the load a bit. So thanks for the pointer! I appreciate it! Warm regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot