From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 29 17:24:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5641065675; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:24:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18158FC12; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:24:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MWCtG-0000Mn-GJ; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:24:37 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MWCtF-00034U-O0; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:24:34 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6THOVo3075188; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:24:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n6THOV0X075183; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:24:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:24:31 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090729172431.GA69866@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: Subject: virtually no free memory left on buildworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:24:40 -0000 I just installed new 4GB RAM in ia64 rx2600 box. On make -j8 buildworld I see with "top -PISu": last pid: 69791; load averages: 8.42, 8.44, 8.59 up 0+02:04:49 18:18:17 154 processes: 11 running, 125 sleeping, 18 waiting CPU 0: 88.8% user, 0.0% nice, 11.0% system, 0.1% interrupt, 0.0% idle CPU 1: 92.5% user, 0.0% nice, 7.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 856M Active, 2414M Inact, 492M Wired, 136M Cache, 417M Buf, 17M Free Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free PID UID THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 63039 0 1 102 0 455M 452M RUN 1 3:14 31.49% cc1 69612 0 1 101 0 71760K 69288K RUN 1 0:06 25.88% cc1 69449 0 1 101 0 103M 101M RUN 0 0:11 24.46% cc1 69437 0 1 101 0 115M 113M RUN 0 0:11 23.88% cc1 69626 0 1 100 0 66688K 64760K RUN 0 0:05 20.36% cc1 69774 0 1 96 0 23072K 21336K RUN 0 0:00 4.69% cc1 69775 0 1 70 0 4296K 2984K piperd 0 0:00 0.20% as 69772 0 1 76 0 6280K 2896K wait 1 0:00 0.10% sh 69773 0 1 76 0 2248K 968K wait 1 0:00 0.10% cc 69784 0 1 96 0 19104K 16872K CPU1 1 0:00 0.00% cc1 69785 0 1 76 0 4296K 2968K piperd 1 0:00 0.00% as Is it normal that there is virtually no free memory left, while there are 2GB of inactive memory? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423