Re: [mv] Is it normal for minivend to spawn several processes? (a BSD issue?)

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Mark Stosberg (mark@summersault.com):
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> Mike Heins wrote:
> > 
> > You say "basically empty box". But without the output of vmstat or the
> > your complete "top" header, we cannot see how much memory you have and
> > where swap is sitting.
> 
> You're right Mike. I should have thought to mention that in the first
> message. Here are the details, grepped from dmessage:
> 
> Celeron (332.59-MHz 686-class CPU)
> dmesg.today:real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
> dmesg.today:avail memory = 29503488 (28812K bytes)
> 
> So that looks like about 28 Megs of available memory. That was a lot
> lower than I thought. :) I expected there was at least 64 Megs in the
> machine. 
> 	Do think this is the bottleneck? Everything else seems fairly standard
> (except maybe for using FreeBSD instead of Linux and INET instead of
> UNIX sockets).

64 M is not much, especially if you are running X on the machine. If it
is not running X, then you could scrape by without too much pain. But with
X you will be painfully slow. And it is simply not enough RAM for a production
server unless traffic will be very light.

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