Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:43:51 +0200 From: Mark Huizer <freebsd@xaa.iae.nl> To: groggy@iname.com, freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: squid VM Message-ID: <19981002204351.B537@xaa.iae.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981002014505.919B-100000@abc.xyz.net>; from groggy@iname.com on Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 01:50:57AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981002014505.919B-100000@abc.xyz.net>
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On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 01:50:57AM -0800, groggy@iname.com wrote: > > i notice as time goes on, > my machine uses more and more > VM. i allocated 800M of cache > to squid (2.2.7). at this point, > the cache has ~128M of data ... > > my VM has gone from 0M used > (when the system fired up) > to 21M of 128M "in use". > > my question is, will i run out > of VM before my cache fill up > to it's 800M capacity? > > i guess it could be DNS swallowing > my VM, but before i ran squid, DNS > effects seemed to be negligible. > The least you could do is look at ps and see which process is taking the memory (or use top, or whatever). Otherwise you never know what it is. Also: used swapspace doesn't mean trouble. It could be pages that were swapped out but never returned to real memory because there was no need for it. Mark -- Nice testing in little China... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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