Subject: Normal Memory Usage?
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: brendan burns <bburns@wso.williams.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/28/2001 00:03:47
Folks, doing a "top" recently I noticed the following:

load averages:  1.46,  2.20,  1.87    23:59:30
27 processes:  26 sleeping, 1 on processor

Memory: 19M Act, 10M Inact, 288K Wired, 1460K Free, 5488K Swap, 44M Swap
free


  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE     TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  569 root      33    0   132K  680K onproc    0:00 16.00%  0.78% top
  396 root       2    0   280K  408K sleep     0:29  0.29%  0.29% sshd
  401 root      10    0   560K  672K sleep     0:03  0.22%  0.05% bash
  192 root       2    0   244K    0K sleep     0:58  0.00%  0.00% <sshd>
  398 root      18    0   408K    0K sleep     0:01  0.00%  0.00% <csh>
   98 root       2    0    92K  312K sleep     0:01  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
  407 root       2    0   896K  244K sleep     0:01  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  197 root      18    0  4096M    0K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% <inetd>
  200 root      10    0  4096M  256K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% cron
  397 brendan   10    0   532K    0K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% <bash>
    1 root      10    0   296K    0K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% <init>
  202 root       3    0    48K    0K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% <getty>
  458 pgsql      2    0  1380K  476K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% postgres
  146 root       2    0  4096M  172K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% nfsd
  147 root       2    0  4096M  172K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% nfsd
  145 root       2    0  4096M  172K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% nfsd
  144 root       2    0  4096M  172K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% nfsd
  132 root       2    0  4096M    0K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% <mountd>

Notice that a) there are four nfsds running and they as well as inetd and
cron each have 4096M of memory (very little of which they are using)  Is
this normal?  Not that "top" lists avail memory as 1460k.  This is on a
Quadra 650 (040) with 40 megs of ram...

Thanks,
Brendan