Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 08:21:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: adding RAM and the result Message-ID: <XFMail.010903082137.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010903031108.A57434@zigman.2y.net>
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systat -vm should give you an idea of the memory usage. If it swaps (a lot) you'd be happy installing more memory. Also use top to find out each program's memory requirements. My guess is that installing another 128M is enough. systat -vm will also show you how busy the disk(s) are. It is quite possible that the io-subsystem is a bottleneck and not the cpu speed. OTOH 300MHz is not much by todays standards... /Micke On 03-Sep-01 Morsal Roudbay wrote: > Hi > Right now I have a dual 300 MHz server running FBSD 4.3 with 128MB RAM... I > am considering to upgrade the RAM to 1GB.. > > Is this a good idea or should I spend the money on a new CPU instead? > > I often compile several ports at the same time and I run many > X-applications. I use this server for network stability testing too... > (running several rain processes that eat lots of RAM) Oh, forgot to mention > that it's a web, mysql, mail and DNS server too. :) > > (faster compile times is probably priority no 1) > > Best regards, > > Morsal > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.4-RC ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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