From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 1 11:39:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B2C106568F for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:39:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056708FC0A for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from working (pool-72-95-226-5.pitbpa.ftas.verizon.net [72.95.226.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7F17EEBC0A; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:39:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:39:19 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: bsd Message-Id: <20091001073919.9e05d056.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <176FD00A-5791-4D3E-B7F3-D5F0A0AE2037@todoo.biz> References: <176FD00A-5791-4D3E-B7F3-D5F0A0AE2037@todoo.biz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Liste FreeBSD Subject: Re: Swap and memory optimization X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:39:48 -0000 bsd wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a FBSD 6.4p7 box that I use as a mail server - 1Go RAM - RAID1 > Works quite well. > > As I plan to put 100 more mail accounts soon on the server I was > wondering if the memory & swap was ok on the server considering these > figures: > > > last pid: 18956; load averages: 0.04, 0.11, > 0.05 > up > 19+08:36:23 09:53:38 > 125 processes: 1 running, 124 sleeping > CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.5% system, 0.4% interrupt, 98.1% idle > Mem: 499M Active, 70M Inact, 362M Wired, 41M Cache, 111M Buf, 20M Free > Swap: 2000M Total, 160M Used, 1840M Free, 8% Inuse > > > Though It looks good to me - the server swaps a bit (between 8 to 14%) > and there is not much memory left. Looks like the server would run more smoothly with a bit more RAM. At least an additional 256M, I would think, but considering the price of RAM, you might as well just up it to 2G. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com