Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:18:58 -0800 From: JMS Internet <webmaster@jmsinternet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Memory Usage Message-ID: <4.2.2.19991207141345.00d7ef00@mail.jmsinternet.com>
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My server runs on a dedicated 10mbps connection. Unfortunately after installing additional ram to help speed up the system I have had no luck determining why the memory is used up as soon as I start the system. The system serves webpages only, so Apache and sendmail are really my only programs running. I've taken the following measurements from 'top' in case it helps anyone, while running normally my system shows: 784M Active 46M Inactive 129M Wired 34M Cache 8M Buffer 3M Free After stopping Apache (leaving approximately 20 megs of programs and system utilities left running I get the following numbers) 577M Active 46M Inactive 111M Wired 29M Cache 8M Buffer 236M Free My question mainly pertains to why the system is not 'freeing' up the memory even though it is not actually doing anything. I'm assuming that could be the reason I'm having such a hard time with system response. Telnet sessions are almost impossible until Apache is killed, and FTPing isn't much better. Anyone's help would be greatly appreciated... Thank You, Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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