MailScanner is responsible for SWAP usage!

[Dave Strydom]

Athena ~ # uptime
 18:53:24 up 217 days, 22:21,  2 users,  load average: 0.20, 0.24, 0.26
Athena ~ # free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2009       1820        189          0        222        960
-/+ buffers/cache:        636       1372
Swap:          972          0        972
Athena ~ #


Calypso ~ # uptime
 18:54:41 up 194 days,  3:15,  2 users,  load average: 0.76, 0.48, 0.40
Calypso ~ # free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2009       1884        125          0        178       1110
-/+ buffers/cache:        595       1413
Swap:          972          0        972
Calypso ~ #


*flexes the memory and uptime muscles*

Regards
Dave


On 5/22/06, Rob Poe <rpoe at plattesheriff.org> wrote:
> Box 1:  Rebooted Sunday at 3:00am
> Mem:   2074872k total,  1337748k used,   737124k free,    54744k
> buffers
> Swap:  2031608k total,      144k used,  2031464k free,   276756k
> cached
>
> Box 2: 57 days uptime
> Mem:   5974104k total,  5510124k used,   463980k free,   165700k
> buffers
> Swap:  2031608k total,      144k used,  2031464k free,   842580k
> cached
>
> Box 3: 67 days uptime
> Mem:  1541512k av, 1518028k used,   23484k free,       0k shrd,
> 251628k buff
> Swap: 2558152k av,   93004k used, 2465148k free
> 686804k cached
>
> Box 4: 16 days uptime
> Mem:   479644k av,  409920k used,   69724k free,       0k shrd,
> 34880k buff
> Swap: 2112440k av,    8156k used, 2104284k free
> 159268k cached
>
> Box 5: 31 days uptime
> Mem:   254212k av,  232344k used,   21868k free,       0k shrd,
> 56916k buff
> Swap:  666616k av,      28k used,  666588k free
> 61704k cached
>
> Box 3 is a squid / httpd / does 15 minute big cron jobs / mailscanner
> with clam and spamassassin and antivir / ldap / general lots of other
> stuff box.  Not lagging, even though it's 93mb into swap.
>
> Box 4 lags pretty hard .. but it's a 800mhz 512mb ram IDE box.  That
> has some to do with it..
>
> Box 5 is also IDE, it's a 350mhz box, but no spamassassin.  Just clam /
> Mailscanner..  purrs fine
>
> Different configs use different amounts of ram.
>