I have loaded the machine with processes and I think it consumed slightly more than 4G physical, running 3 compiles at once. OpenBSD userland (make -j4) + Clang/LLVM (make -j4) + ITK (make -j4). I was checking with top -s3 -1.
OpenBSD just returns kernel page memory very very quickly, so it is difficult for it to consume more :). But seriously, after this compile, kernel was holding onto some memory. At idle (after compilation) it was an excess of 300-500M more, instead of 1-1.3G, it was around 1.7G. Opensolaris does aggressive caching trying to maintain and fill out all the available RAM, but OpenBSD gives back the memory very very quickly. Thanks On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Janne Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/3/30 Tony Berth <[email protected]> > >> currently not but this machine will be a DB server (Postgresql + Mysql) and >> it was aksed if we could go beyond the 8G. >> >> In any case, for now, if I can address 8G physical memory is fine. >> >> > ..which you cant. > > > -- > To our sweethearts and wives. May they never meet. -- 19th century toast
