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Date:      Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:41:36 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        bsd <bsd@todoo.biz>
Cc:        Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Swap and memory optimization
Message-ID:  <20091001134136.GC37268@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <176FD00A-5791-4D3E-B7F3-D5F0A0AE2037@todoo.biz>
References:  <176FD00A-5791-4D3E-B7F3-D5F0A0AE2037@todoo.biz>

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On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:58:36AM +0200, 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.
> 
> Let me know what you think about these figures.
> 

Unless something else is going on or you are running some
commercial server that gets huge amounts of traffic, you
should have no capacity problem with this setup.   You might
want to upgrade to a more recent FreeBSD.

////jerry



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