From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 02:27:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA25050 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 02:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cc-server9.massey.ac.nz (cc-server9.massey.ac.nz [130.123.128.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA25024 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 02:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609180927.CAA25024@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: from tpc-pc1 by cc-server9 with SMTP(PP); Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:07:28 +1200 X-Sender: CHarding@mail.massey.ac.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:07:28 +1200 To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org From: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz (Craig Harding) Subject: Re: Trimming RAM usage on FreeBSD box X-Mailer: Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer writes: >I have a small FreeBSD box that has 8MB of ram >it is running a few servers that seem to >use all it's RAM so I end up thrashing to the point that >it becomes unusable.. (login takes about 15 minutes) I hate to tell you this, but 8MB of RAM is tiny for a FreeBSD box, especially one that's running as a network server of sorts (as opposed to a personal workstation). I suggest you use lots of ps (and top - from the ports collection I believe) to have a look at the memory usage of your system. -- C. -- Craig Harding Acting Director, Massey University Television Production Centre "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly