Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:01:07 +0100 (CET) From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtual memory management 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>
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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
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