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Old 17th January 2009
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Generally, the only time I worry is when top shows little memory left to pull from, without digging into SWAP or that it is actually sucking up swap space already. I take the output of top as a guideline to figure out 'where we are heading', with a grain of salt, rather then a precise statement ;-)


About the worst top output I ever recorded was: Mem: 298M Active, 18M Inact, 96M Wired, 12M Cache, 53M Buf, 1888K Free
Swap: 860M Total, 100M Used, 760M Free, 11% Inuse; and that was under 512MB of RAM. Under various states of abuse, have seen Swap Free go below 150M on occasions, but that was always rare. Right now with the 1GB, I'm under a common idle load with Opera as the web browser: Mem: 141M Active, 76M Inact, 113M Wired, 1076K Cache, 104M Buf, 597M Free
Swap: 860M Total, 860M Free. Which is actually quite nice IMHO.


From 384MB to 2048MB RAM, single cored Pentium 3@500Mhz to dual cored Pentium D 930@3.0Ghz - I have never had a problem with how FreeBSD manages resources.
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