From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 3 8:31:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zigman.2y.net (korpen-86-195.ip-pluggen.com [212.181.86.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3021E37B40A for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 08:31:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by zigman.2y.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4874A1EC8; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:31:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:31:47 +0200 From: Morsal Roudbay To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding RAM and the result Message-ID: <20010903173147.B18871@zigman.2y.net> Reply-To: Morsal Roudbay References: <78216641@toto.iv> <15251.15856.788048.319736@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15251.15856.788048.319736@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3 [up 12 days, 21:12] X-Return-Path: morsal@swipnet.se Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:23:12AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Morsal Roudbay types: > > 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? > > Are you running out of swap or cpu? Running vmstat inside of script > while you're doing the things you want to make faster will provide a > nice log to help you decide which you need more of for those tasks. When I compile stuff the CPU usage isnt very high... my swap usage is about 50% right now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message