In the last episode (Oct 01), Bill Moran said:
> bsd <b...@todoo.biz> wrote:
> > 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.
The amount of used swap is much less important than whether you are actively
swapping (if there are In/Out values on the Swap line in top, or if "vmstat
1" shows nonzero values in the pi/po columns). 160MB of used swap is fine
if it's just unused daemons (getty, idle webserver, etc). More memory can
never hurt, but it doesn't seem like it's urgently needed here.
--
Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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