On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:09:13 +0100 Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> this is my memory statistics: > 1295184k total, 664740k used, 630444k free, 85144k buffers > and every day my free memory decrease. Normally, this is a good thing, since "free" memory is unused memory (Don't you think that a change in 'free' would have been a good thing in the first place - call it "unused" because that is what it really is, but then we'd have to call the "free" command "unused" or something.) and unused memory is wasted memory. Over time, expect it to go down as more is committed for apps, caches and disk buffers. You'll also see it momentarily go up from time to time, especially if you close out a big app. > > Spamd (5 child in total) use 15% of memory!!! (Now I don't receve > e-mail, because this server is in testing and the smtp port is closed) But it's not a good idea to run services you don't use. They do take some resources that could be put to better use. How does (if it does) email get to your system? Is spamd only filtering local mail (pop or fetchmail etc)? spamd wouldn't normally be running unless there were mail messages to process. As far as apache is concerned, there's no need to load or run it if you aren't going to be hosting services, so you're better off doing an aptitude purge apache2. > Apache2 (7 child in total) use 13% of memory!!! (Now I'don't web > traffic, my port 80 is closed!) Much of which is shared, so don't simply total them up. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
