Aaron Kulkis wrote: > JJB wrote: >> Would there be any advantage in putting more than 1 gigabyte of RAM >> in a Suse 10.2 box? I understand that the RAM usage is generally low. >> >> - Joel > > I routinely use 2 GB of real memory plus another 1 GB of swap. > > RAM usage is entirely dependent upon what YOU do with the machine, > so whoever told you that was talking through his anal orifice.
More data points for your amusement - My home mail/web/dns server (10.2/x86_64) has 1 GB RAM and it's a bit tight: top - 10:26:18 up 71 days, 13:07, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.13, 0.06 Tasks: 119 total, 1 running, 118 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.4%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.3%id, 1.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 962300k total, 866524k used, 95776k free, 39684k buffers Swap: 2104504k total, 650148k used, 1454356k free, 124940k cached My home desktop machine (10.2/i386) has 1 GB RAM, and is just beginning to get into swap - top - 10:21:58 up 6 days, 11:17, 10 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.09 Tasks: 142 total, 1 running, 140 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.3%us, 1.8%sy, 2.8%ni, 92.7%id, 0.2%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1028000k total, 975796k used, 52204k free, 39020k buffers Swap: 1052248k total, 5724k used, 1046524k free, 260872k cached OTOH my firewall/dns/dhcp server (10.1/i386) an old compaq deskpro is OK w/ 265 MB RAM: top - 10:28:10 up 15 days, 21:33, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 51 total, 1 running, 50 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.1% us, 0.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.5% id, 0.2% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.1% si Mem: 256784k total, 245492k used, 11292k free, 90472k buffers Swap: 786736k total, 108k used, 786628k free, 33972k cached Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
