From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 21:30:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17073 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:30:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eagle.ns.net (root@eagle.ns.net [204.75.146.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16792 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (segfault.monkeys.com [204.119.242.200]) by eagle.ns.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA26448; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA29196; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:29:43 -0700 To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I find out how much memory the kernel is using now? In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 26 May 1998 21:22:18 -0700. X-Copyright: (c) 1998 Ronald F. Guilmette; All rights reserved. Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:29:42 -0700 Message-ID: <29194.896243382@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , you wrot e: >On Tue, 26 May 1998, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> >> I have a FreeBSD box configured (via sysctl) to allow for a large number of >> both open files (system-wide) and also for a large number of open network >> connections (system-wide). >> >> This box has very little running on it, only a few processes, the largest >> of which is about 5.5 megs (virtual), but I have 32 MB of physical memory >> in the box. >> >> Still, the thing seems to be swapping like crazy. Why? I need to find out >> exactly why, and soon. > >Run top and watch what turns to . processes are >swapped out. Perhaps your huge process is leaking memory? If it was leaking memory, then that fact would show up (glaringly) on a `ps -l' report would it not? I am seeing no evidence of that. >> number?? Is that really saying that I only have 3.8 MB left for user-level >> processes?? > >That isn't bad. Ah... excuse?? Come again? I spent good money to put 32 MB of main memory in this puppy and now when I say that it look like the OS is using up all but 3.8 MB of that you say ``That isn't bad''. It sure as hell _is_ bad in my book. Jeeezzzz. Even Windoze NT doesn't suck memory THIS bad! P.S. I am still hoping for an answer to my original question... How can I tell exactly how much memory the OS itself is using at any given instant in time? -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) - demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message