memory loss
Lately I've seem tobe looseing a large amount of memory, I was at 180M free, now its down to ~45M. I know Inact = inactive, but what would cause large amounts of inactive memory to be 'used'? I went down the list of top and nothing comes close to adding up to 300m. Also, if its inactive memory, isn't that the same as free? $top last pid: 73315; load averages: 1.09, 1.03, 1.01 up 17+03:48:25 20:03:50 31 processes: 2 running, 29 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 100% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 26M Active, 388M Inact, 55M Wired, 27M Cache, 61M Buf, 4580K Free Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free Thank you, Gordon Keesler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: memory loss
On 2002-12-16 20:30, aSe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately I've seem tobe looseing a large amount of memory, I was at 180M free, now its down to ~45M. I know Inact = inactive, but what would cause large amounts of inactive memory to be 'used'? I went down the list of top and nothing comes close to adding up to 300m. This is answered in the FAQ already. Point your favorite browser at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#TOP-FREEMEM Also, if its inactive memory, isn't that the same as free? No. A lot of things about the way memory management works in FreeBSD is explained in the excellent article ``Design elements of the FreeBSD VM system'' by Matt Dillon. Find it at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/ - Giorgos Strange, I remember looking at the faq, guess I'm an idiot. Thank you for the help! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
port of noflushd
I'm building up a box outta spare parts i had laying around. I'm really looking for a FreeBSD port of noflushd ( http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ ) or something that'll do the same. If I can't find something like it, I'll be forced to install linux over bsd and nobody wants that! right? :) Thanks, Gordon Keesler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: port of noflushd
In the last episode (Jan 10), aSe said: I'm building up a box outta spare parts i had laying around. I'm really looking for a FreeBSD port of noflushd ( http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ ) or something that'll do the same. Why would anyone _not_ want disk writes to be written to disk? Use a ramdisk if you don't want to touch the drive. I'm trying to think of a use for this program. The noise of the constally spinning HD does bother me. I sleep rather close to my computers. With that application/program, the HD would be spun down when not needed/inuse. If i had enough ram to run everything off a ramdrive i would attempt it. Right now I only have 3x64mb laying around. Gordon Keesler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
DNS question
I've got a dns running on a freebsd computer at my company. I'm new to the concept of DNS and how it all works. My question is: When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached, how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip? Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Too many files open / file: table is full
Recently, one of the machines I help to admin ran into problems and had to be rebooted. The machine uptime was about 40days and one of the techs told me it became unresponsive and any command he typed into term it responded Too many files open. Checking the logs now i see the below at the very same time. It is 4.7-Release, I will be more then happy to post more information if requested. Right now I'm just trying to figure out what happen and how to fix. I know for a fact the 13gb drive had over 7gb free, so is there a setting where I can adjust the number of open files? Jan 22 21:22:18 Fail /kernel: le: table is full Jan 22 21:22:18 Fail /kernel: file: table is full Jan 22 21:22:18 Fail last message repeated 1450 times Jan 22 21:22:18 Fail /kernel: le: table is full Jan 22 21:22:18 Fail /kernel: file: table is full Thank you, Gordon Keesler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Too many files open / file: table is full
This is not a matter of diskspace. The kernel holds a fixed length table in memory with all open files. If this table gets full it usually means one of two things: 1) You have a runaway application, opening way too many files. Identify the application and fix or disable it. 2) You're running a kernel with a too low value for maxusers (which, among other things, determines the maximum amount of open files). The default in 4.7-RELEASE is 0, which means: optimize according to amount of memory installed. The default is usually O.K. If not, one option is to simply install more memory. The machine itself runs several logging applications and things of that nature. I didn't think It was an issue with HD. Nor do I believe its ram, It has 512mb installed, and 256mb of swap. As it stands right now it has 270mb free and hasn't touched the swap. Right now maxusers is set to 6, I didn't realize it would play a role in this instance. Jack Stone suggested looking up the number of max open files by doing sysctl kern.maxfiles It returns only 232 which to me seems like a very small number. He also suggested to change it using sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=4160. My question to you is, does maxusers play more of a role then just the max number of open files. In the long run would it be better to just set maxusers to 0 or just change the kern.maxfiles? Thank you! Gordon Keesler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I currently have an APC Smart-UPS 1000, It is connected to my win2k machine using a serial cable and using power chute I can have the computer shutdown when the battery gets low. There are 3 computers connected to it, my FreeBSD server, my gentoo workstation, and my windows 2000 workstation. What I'd really like to do is find a way to run a daemon the server that will shutdown my windows and gentoo machines after it goes X number of minutes into ups mode. Anyone know any software of the like? Thanks, Gordon Keesler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 2.3 wkYEARECAAYFAj7s1oIACgkQaic4XJRNfdWuLgCeK8Z/skv3/te5MZa6B8U5GwyXdjYA oIAeWWlj9rWLE7Mn5Tl1Yy+GXR2K =Zupz -END PGP SIGNATURE- Concerned about your privacy? Follow this link to get FREE encrypted email: https://www.hushmail.com/?l=2 Free, ultra-private instant messaging with Hush Messenger https://www.hushmail.com/services.php?subloc=messengerl=434 Big $$$ to be made with the HushMail Affiliate Program: https://www.hushmail.com/about.php?subloc=affiliatel=427 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail?
Hello, I'm trying to find a guide/walk-through/howto on installing postfix/qmail on freebsd, along with a pop3 server. I've been searching on google for awhile now, anything i've found is old and/or doesn't talk about setting up pop3. Thank you! aSe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Qmail/Mail problem..
Hello, I'm useing the HowTo at http://mricon.com/SM/guide/bsd/qvcs-guide.pdf to setup Qmail and Ucspi-tcp. I'm just having a slight problem trying to start ucspi-tcp. Fail# /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x/var/qmail/control/relays.cdb -u5001 -g5000 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger Ambiguous output redirect. (note: my email client is most likely wrapping that command to another line but, it was entered as one) Any ideas as to why it could be doing that? Thank you, aSe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Qmail/Mail problem..
Sorry, for adding more 'traffic' to the mailing list.. by simply scrolling down and from another email from Kurt Bigler. I was useing csh, when i thought i was useing sh. I fault my addiction to many cans of Dr pepper. :o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of aSe Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Qmail/Mail problem.. Hello, I'm useing the HowTo at http://mricon.com/SM/guide/bsd/qvcs-guide.pdf to setup Qmail and Ucspi-tcp. I'm just having a slight problem trying to start ucspi-tcp. Fail# /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x/var/qmail/control/relays.cdb -u5001 -g5000 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger Ambiguous output redirect. (note: my email client is most likely wrapping that command to another line but, it was entered as one) Any ideas as to why it could be doing that? Thank you, aSe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
