On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:20 PM, John Almberg <jalmb...@identry.com> wrote: > I would have thought, but some times it really gets slow and I'm trying to > figure out why. When bogged down, the load averages are low. The main thing > that looks out of whack is swap space, which seems to never go below 7%, but > sometimes gets up into the 20%-30% range. When it gets that high, the server > slows to a crawl.
In this case you don't want to look at processes with big RES, you want to find processes with a big difference between RES and SIZE and/or the ones with flat-out largest SIZE. Try sorting top by SIZE and see what bubbles up. (Ignore rpc.statd if it's running.) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"