> 70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle > Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used, 1828K free, 36880K shrd, 7712K buff > Swap: 104380K av, 3128K used, 101252K free 35860K > cached This doesen't look like a problem but like a perfectly healthy server. No metter how much RAM you put in it there'll always be only about 2 megs left, because of machine's fs caching, that uses any free ram to hold pieces of often used files.
> "all-in-one" box running DNS, squid, postfix, apache and radius (I have > 17 modems on it's cyclades). Any recommendations on the "bare-minimum" > RAM for this configuration? The suits at our purchasing division are 64Megs if perfectly enough, i know people that used to run such boxes witch 16Megs of ram. What you should look at is swap that is used (3 megs? only? and that's a problem? ) > need to know if I need to "demand" that they "immediately" cough-up the > 128mb (or more). now of course you should demand more ram, common, squid is a real memory hogger, but you can tell it how much ram you want it to use (things like cache_mem etc), , apache can eat memory like crazy ( especially mine, with perl modules compiled in ) regards, Eyck
