>>>>> "Alec" == Alec H Peterson <chuckie@panix.com> writes:

    Alec> One thing that kills it for some reason is named.  We are
    Alec> running a dedicated name server machine, and all it is
    Alec> running is named.  Sometimes there is something like 40MB of
    Alec> swap claimed, and the aparent sum total of the processes is
    Alec> something like 15MB.  The machine has 16MB of RAM.

named can definately take up a lot of memory.  Especially if say a
web-server is using it.  My named running locally on my web server
(hpux, not netbsd) has been known to grow to 15megs or more.  to
prevent this, don't use a caching name server (I don't know if netbsd
can do this or not...  never looked).
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