From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 10:06:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136C437B401 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 10:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (oe32.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.16.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B58C4405C for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 10:05:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meimi_1@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 May 2003 10:05:23 -0700 Received: from 144.173.6.77 by oe32.law11.hotmail.com with DAV; Thu, 08 May 2003 17:05:23 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [144.173.6.77] X-Originating-Email: [meimi_1@hotmail.com] From: "meimi" To: "freebsd-questions" References: <20030506090721.Q62023-100000@foem> Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 18:03:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 May 2003 17:05:23.0320 (UTC) FILETIME=[03631F80:01C31584] Subject: Newbies Question: High inactive memory and Quota in kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 17:06:12 -0000 Hello, Here is my result of "top" command: last pid: 15542; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 1+03:48:42 11:59:35 36 processes: 1 running, 35 sleeping CPU states: 2.5% user, 0.0% nice, 4.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 93.5% idle Mem: 27M Active, 345M Inact, 57M Wired, 15M Cache, 57M Buf, 24M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 15542 root 28 0 1896K 1088K RUN 0:00 6.66% 0.63% top 141 root 10 0 1928K 1400K nanslp 0:07 0.00% 0.00% perl 8221 root 2 0 7092K 5120K select 0:02 0.00% 0.00% httpd 96 root 10 0 1012K 616K nanslp 0:01 0.00% 0.00% cron 26271 root 10 0 3076K 2492K nanslp 0:01 0.00% 0.00% perl 119 bind 2 0 2516K 1956K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% named 87 root 2 0 944K 540K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% syslogd 146 root 2 0 1880K 1344K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% proftpd 43667 root 2 0 2320K 1592K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd 30844 root 10 20 3792K 3220K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% perl 30855 root 2 0 3832K 3268K accept 0:00 0.00% 0.00% whostmgrd 22504 mailnull 2 0 3560K 1416K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% exim 30849 root 2 0 3456K 2888K accept 0:00 0.00% 0.00% webmaild 30847 root 2 0 3848K 3340K accept 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cpaneld 94 root 2 0 1092K 684K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% inetd 15538 root 2 0 2464K 1808K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd 1.Why the inactive memory be so high? Is it a rpoblem? 2.Could anyone tell me how I know whether quota is enabled in kernel? In handbook, they just tell me how to enable it, but they haven't told me how to check. Thanks meimi