Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More memory?

[Tim Igoe <tim@igoe.me.uk>]

Grant wrote:

>>SWAP is not necessarily a bad thing. It is mealy a simple way of moving
>>unused code from memory so that it can be better used, ie disk caching.
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>>Swap can be bad if you have insufficient memory to run your processes.
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>>If your system has lots of disk activity, the OS will assign memory to
>>cache the disk. This may where you memory is going.
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>>You say that your system is using perl. What else? Apache? MySQL/PgSQL?
>>etc ...
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>I'm running interchange (http://www.icdevgroup.org), apache2,
>mod_perl2, and mysql.  I run courier-imap and postfix for email, but
>I'm the only user.  I use php only for squirrelmail.
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Just a check here, it is the -latest- version of Squirrelmail. There was 
one version that would cause my server to use -all- its RAM and swap 
(and eventually just reboot) when i clicked reply (memory leak 
somewhere) which has since been sorted.

Just a thought.

Tim

>- Grant
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>>All the best
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>>Simon
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