On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:38:44PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Chuck Swiger, and lo! it spake thus:
Yeah-- it's more common for a system to need more RAM for dynamicly
allocated content which would be placed into the swapfile then it
uses binary executable pages, it's possible to go the other way,
too.
Yeah, and it's WAY the other way.
0 swap pager pageins
0 swap pager pageouts
31750 vnode pager pageins
15954 vnode pager pageouts
That speaks of HUGE memory pressure in program text; plenty for the
'data' of the programs, but really really tight for the programs
themselves. That'll also lead to a lot of disk thrashing. And there
aren't even all that many fork() calls, relative to my box (of course,
mine does things like ports builds that spawn of totally stupid
numbers of processes, so that may be a quirk here rather than there).
Perhaps rebuilding a bunch of stuff with -Os will gain you some
breathing room, but more memory or less load is probably the only real
answer. And I think you already had 4 gig in an i386 box, so you're
kinda in trouble on the memory side.
Would having only 1 CPU (1 died, used to be two) cause this, or pure
memory?
And, if things are *that* tight, shouldn't it be doing more swapping?
pluto# pstat -s
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
/dev/da0s1b 8388608 7324 8381284 0%
pluto# uptime
2:52PM up 20:17, 5 users, load averages: 1.26, 4.08, 5.64
pluto#
From top:
last pid: 46611; load averages: 1.09, 3.86, 5.53
up 0+20:17:38 14:52:16
1311 processes:9 running, 1301 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU states: 1.1% user, 0.0% nice, 3.0% system, 0.4% interrupt, 95.6% idle
Mem: 3088M Active, 349M Inact, 313M Wired, 165M Cache, 112M Buf, 27M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 7268K Used, 8185M Free
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