From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 16:36:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA04121 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA04115; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:36:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199606072336.QAA04115@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: INN 1.4 unoff4 running on FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE To: deanf@www.durham.net (Dean Forester) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dean Forester" at Jun 7, 96 06:10:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dean Forester wrote: > > Hi, > > We are running our news server on a 486 DX4/100 with 48Mb RAM, and 50Mb > of swap space. The machine is running on a ISA motherboard, with an the amount of swap that you have allocated is most likely insufficient. you should have enough memory to run all your processes without swapping. if that is not possible, then at least allocate more swap. the old rule of thumb says 100MB swap for ~50MB ram. use ps or top to see how large the set of processes becomes and size the machine to match. only 1 drive for news? moving history to another drive (or better another controller) would probably help you. jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/