Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 06:56:33 +0000 From: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning memory usage Message-ID: <20051003065633.GA7536@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20051003064233.GA7398@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <20051003064233.GA7398@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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Hi, Is it possible that the correct sysctl is vm.dmmax? On my system this is set to 32. Thanks. cheers bruce On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 06:42:33AM +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote: > Hi, > > I have a normally unloaded 5.4-release systems with 256 meg of memory > and 2 CPUs. Every 20 mins a job starts that runs 1 process per CPU, > so 2 in this case. Each process gets SIZE to 130 meg or so, but, RES > never climbs above 32meg or so. > > While running, top shows 34 meg buffer and 12 meg cache. > > Oddly enough when I only run one of the two processes the RES size > still doesn't climb above 32meg or so. > > Is there some setting to let RES get bigger? I would help with these > jobs. > > I realize, of course, the more memory would help the problem. I'm just > waiting for ebay.ch to have something sensible. > > cheers > > bruce > > -- > edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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