Subject: Re: Normal Memory Usage?
To: brendan burns <bburns@wso.williams.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/28/2001 12:05:36
Are you running a -current kernel? There was a recent bugfix that
fixed a memory reporting error...
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, brendan burns wrote:
> Folks, doing a "top" recently I noticed the following:
>
> load averages: 1.46, 2.20, 1.87 23:59:30
> 27 processes: 26 sleeping, 1 on processor
>
> Memory: 19M Act, 10M Inact, 288K Wired, 1460K Free, 5488K Swap, 44M Swap
> free
>
>
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
> 569 root 33 0 132K 680K onproc 0:00 16.00% 0.78% top
> 396 root 2 0 280K 408K sleep 0:29 0.29% 0.29% sshd
> 401 root 10 0 560K 672K sleep 0:03 0.22% 0.05% bash
> 192 root 2 0 244K 0K sleep 0:58 0.00% 0.00% <sshd>
> 398 root 18 0 408K 0K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% <csh>
> 98 root 2 0 92K 312K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% syslogd
> 407 root 2 0 896K 244K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% httpd
> 197 root 18 0 4096M 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <inetd>
> 200 root 10 0 4096M 256K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cron
> 397 brendan 10 0 532K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <bash>
> 1 root 10 0 296K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <init>
> 202 root 3 0 48K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <getty>
> 458 pgsql 2 0 1380K 476K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% postgres
> 146 root 2 0 4096M 172K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% nfsd
> 147 root 2 0 4096M 172K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% nfsd
> 145 root 2 0 4096M 172K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% nfsd
> 144 root 2 0 4096M 172K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% nfsd
> 132 root 2 0 4096M 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <mountd>
>
> Notice that a) there are four nfsds running and they as well as inetd and
> cron each have 4096M of memory (very little of which they are using) Is
> this normal? Not that "top" lists avail memory as 1460k. This is on a
> Quadra 650 (040) with 40 megs of ram...
>
> Thanks,
> Brendan
>
>