WAY OT OS _humor_ (was: Re: MailScanner is responsible for SWAP usage!)

John Rudd jrudd at ucsc.edu
Mon May 22 18:59:46 IST 2006


If you need to do kernel updates more often than every 365 days, you 
need a more stable unix variant :-)


On May 22, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Rob Poe wrote:

> 217 days?  Dont ya gotta reboot for updated kernels?
>
>
>>>> strydom.dave at gmail.com 5/22/2006 11:55:55 AM >>>
> 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.
>>
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