Re: Fw: Help me put 2 Gigs of RAM to use

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> What I'm noticing is that the while the FreeBSD server has 4 Gigs of
> memory, there are rarely every more than 2 in use-- the memory use
> graphs as being rather constant. My goal is to make good use of those 2
> Gigs of memory to improve performance and reduce the CPU usage.

I think you'll find that the RAM is already being used quite effectively 
as disc cache by the OS. It sounds like the server is actually set up 
pretty well. You may get slightly better performance by tweaking a thing 
here or there, but the server needs some OS disc cache to perform well.

> (We currently run 8.2, but are planning an upgrade to 8.4 "soon").

Highly recommended.

> [I tried to post this yesterday but didn't see it come through. This
> message is a second attempt.)

The mailing list server will silently chuck any message whose subject 
starts with the word "help", just in case you're asking for help about 
managing the mailing list. The default behaviour is not to inform you that 
it has done so. It is highly annoying - could a list admin please consider 
changing this?

Matthew

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