Subject: RE: Alright, damnit, this is getting annoying.
To: 'NetBSD/VAX list' <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/13/1997 10:06:07
I'm running 1.2 release on a uVAXII with 9 megs. Right now I have four
users logged in, one is unpacking kernel source, one is compiling
'config', one is running 'top' and one is used to compile the following
statistics for you:
vaxine:~# sysctl -n kern.version | sed 1q
NetBSD 1.2 (VAXINE) #0: Fri Dec 6 04:14:20 MET 1996
vaxine:~# pstat -s
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/ra4b 36864 7329 29535 20% Interleaved
vaxine:~# vmstat
vmstat: No drives attached.
procs memory page faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr in sy cs us sy id
3 0 0 13743 848 26 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 98 0
vaxine:~# top
load averages: 3.20, 2.77, 1.73 09:55:13
41 processes: 4 running, 38 sleeping
Cpu states: 39.8% user, 0.0% nice, 59.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.8%
idle
Memory: 3689K Act 1925K Inact 1190K Wired 427K Free 20% Swap
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
24428 root 52 -20 3081K 0K run 0:03 17.05% 17.04% cc1
24276 root 42 -20 921K 0K run 0:36 14.40% 14.40% gunzip
24427 root 39 -20 635K 0K run 0:08 8.40% 8.40% top
24429 root 43 -20 546K 0K run 0:03 9.98% 7.52% sh
24417 root 2 -20 629K 0K sleep 0:08 5.96% 5.96% top
24278 root 2 -20 561K 0K sleep 0:51 5.42% 5.42% tar
134 root 18 -20 913K 0K sleep 57.8H 2.98% 2.98% httpd
78 root 18 -20 58K 0K sleep 68:06 0.54% 0.44% update
63 root 2 -20 275K 0K sleep 17:35 0.36% 0.29% syslogd
108 root 18 224 831K 0K sleep 143:35 0.05% 0.05% xntpd
24132 root 2 -20 390K 0K sleep 0:33 0.05% 0.05% telnetd
80 root 18 -20 458K 0K sleep 35:14 0.00% 0.00% cron
15923 gunnar 10 -20 1218K 0K sleep 0:09 0.00% 0.00% <bash>
24280 gunnar 10 -20 1206K 0K sleep 0:05 0.00% 0.00% <bash>
24399 gunnar 10 -20 1206K 0K sleep 0:06 0.00% 0.00% <bash>
24133 gunnar 10 -20 1206K 0K sleep 0:05 0.00% 0.00% <bash>
24277 root 10 -20 1199K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <bash>
24145 root 10 -20 1199K 0K sleep 0:12 0.00% 0.00% <bash>
24295 root 10 -20 1195K 0K sleep 0:03 0.00% 0.00% <bash>
24414 root 10 -20 1187K 0K sleep 0:03 0.00% 0.00% <bash>
24356 root 10 -20 1187K 0K sleep 0:04 0.00% 0.00% <bash>
24305 root 10 -20 669K 0K sleep 0:03 0.00% 0.00% <make>
109 root 10 -20 534K 0K sleep 83:08 0.00% 0.00% <sh>
1 root 10 -20 354K 0K sleep 0:06 0.00% 0.00% <init>
24425 root 10 -20 248K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <cc>
57 root 10 -20 112K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <nfsiod>
56 root 10 -20 112K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <nfsiod>
55 root 10 -20 112K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <nfsiod>
54 root 10 -20 112K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <nfsiod>
20156 httpd 2 -20 983K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <httpd>
20470 httpd 2 -20 983K 0K sleep 0:02 0.00% 0.00% <httpd>
22341 httpd 2 -20 983K 0K sleep 0:07 0.00% 0.00% <httpd>
7017 httpd 2 -20 983K 0K sleep 0:09 0.00% 0.00% <httpd>
10839 httpd 2 -20 983K 0K sleep 0:07 0.00% 0.00% <httpd>
14530 httpd 2 -20 983K 0K sleep 0:05 0.00% 0.00% <httpd>
87 root 2 -20 408K 0K sleep 0:12 0.00% 0.00% <lpd>
24279 root 2 -20 390K 0K sleep 0:03 0.00% 0.00%
<telnetd>
24398 root 2 -20 390K 0K sleep 0:04 0.00% 0.00% telnetd
92 root 2 -20 363K 0K sleep 0:47 0.00% 0.00% <inetd>
48 root 2 -20 181K 0K sleep 0:12 0.00% 0.00%
<portmap>
24275 root 2 -20 82K 0K sleep 0:02 0.00% 0.00% <cat>
In other words, vmstat ain't working but the machine is clearly
swapping!
Memory handling seems perfectly OK to me, what am I doing wrong? ;-)
Gunnar
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Gunnar Helliesen | Bergen IT Consult AS | NetBSD/VAX on a uVAX II
Systems Consultant | Bergen, Norway | '86 Jaguar Sovereign 4.2
gunnar@bitcon.no | http://www.bitcon.no/ | '73 Mercedes 280 (240D)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Johnny Billquist [SMTP:bqt@Update.UU.SE]
>Sent: Thursday, June 12, 1997 7:44 PM
>To: Kevin McQuiggin
>Cc: VAX porting list
>Subject: Re: Alright, damnit, this is getting annoying.
>
>> machine big time, now I'm outta here waiting for another stable release to
>> come along...
>
>Kevin, how much memory does you machine have?
>
>It seems like there is a problem in the memory handling in 1.2 NetBSD/vax.
>For me, my fortune is that I have 16 Meg, so I don't need to page.
>
>Building the system is really no pain at all, but I would expect that if I
>only had 8 meg, I would be in deep trouble...
>