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Subject: Re: Trimming RAM usage on FreeBSD box
To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:26:39 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <323CEEFC.2781E494@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Sep 15, 96 11:09:00 pm
From: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson)
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in the last episode, Julian Elischer said:
> 
> I have a small FreeBSD box that has 8MB of ram
> it is running a few servers that seem to 
> use all it's RAM so I end up thrashing to the point that
> it becomes unusable.. (login takes about 15 minutes)
[...] 
> 1/ I rememeber some talk of a much more efficient http daemon, that 
> didn't need to fork off all these processes,

I use a non-forking server called Roxen (formerly Spinner).  It has a
web-browesr configuration interface, supports virtual servers, and has
a nice set of features.  Takes up from 1 to 2 meg of core, depending on
how active your site is.  It's at www.roxen.com.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com