Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:26:14 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Reilly <reilly@zeta.org.au> To: dg@root.com Cc: gordon@drogon.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wheres all my memory going? Message-ID: <199710082326.JAA20837@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <199710081356.GAA19466@implode.root.com>
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On 8 Oct, David Greenman wrote: >>Machine boots OK. I start named (8.1.1) and it initialises. However, after >>some time (a day or so) the machine start to run out of swap space. I only >>allocated 64M of swap. (Is this the problem?) What I can't figure out is >>where the memory is going. Output of 'top -b' shows: > > Yes, you need more swap than you have RAM...this is very important to > avoid problems. Does that mean that it is not possible to run a FreeBSD system without swap at all? I can think of a number of situations (mostly kind of embedded) where you can arrange to satisfy all of the memory requirements with RAM, but don't want to add a disk or use a network for swap. -- Andrew "The steady state of disks is full." -- Ken Thompson
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