From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 19:42:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2632E37B4D7 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:42:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p15-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.80]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id MAA07726; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:42:15 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A232657.946EBB25@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:28:23 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: carock@epctech.com Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Couple of config questions... References: <00d901c058c7$5a45bd70$1805010a@epconline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Rock wrote: > > Mem: 51M Active, 371M Inact, 43M Wired, 13M Cache, 61M Buf, 24M Free > > I read a while back on another list that inactive memory was bad because of > speed or something. Is there a way to get more memory activated, or is this > normal and by design? Must have been a Linux mailing list... :-) They do things differently there, it seems. Inactive memory is fine. It means simply that some piece of data read from disk is no longer used by anything and is available for immediate use, *but*, can be "reinstated" to it's content (ie, work as cache). > Second question was... > > Is there a way to get syslog to put time and date into the dmesg file? This > is a real pain in the !@# when trying to find out what causes problems, and > the only logging available is from dmesg. Logging to the console with date > and time would also be VERY appreciated. Not that I know of. It should be a quick hack to implement, though. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@united.bsdconspiracy.net "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know. Whatever it is, it's not enough, but at least you haven't done anything stupid yet." "I've hardly had time, sir." "There's a naive statement." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message