From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 20 22:25:12 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 4658916A401 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:25:12 +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 E1DDE13C442 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:25:11 +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 1H8OeC-000GBT-FS for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:25:16 +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 23:25:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <62646.192.168.11.7.1169331916.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> In-Reply-To: <20070120195139.GC87905@dan.emsphone.com> 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> <60565.192.168.11.7.1169287267.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <20070120195139.GC87905@dan.emsphone.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:25:16 +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 22:25:12 -0000 Dear all, | Also remember that swap usage itself is not a bad thing; it just means Problem solved. I should have thought about that earlier. Yesterday I was playing with HotSaNIC software to use it on this box. In the end I decided I didn't like it and I didn't really need it so I removed it from the system stopping rrdtool first. Only today did I notice that I have an unusually high (for my setup) number of sleeping processes. ps ax showed me that I had about 150 perl processes that were started by HotSaNIC but never really stopped. I killed them (what a joy :) and voila: last pid: 62059; load averages: 0.04, 0.12, 0.22 up 51+00:27:42 23:21:25 81 processes: 1 running, 78 sleeping, 2 zombie CPU states: 2.7% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.8% interrupt, 95.7% idle Mem: 161M Active, 4348K Inact, 111M Wired, 128K Cache, 60M Buf, 216M Free Swap: 512M Total, 81M Used, 431M Free, 15% Inuse Thank you all for your support! My experience with FBSD is pretty much 51 days old :). But I read most of the posts hoping to learn new things. The great adventure now is to upgrade to 6.2 from 6.1. Never been there before :) Warm regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot