Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> JJB wrote:
>> Would there be any advantage in putting more than 1 gigabyte of RAM
>> in a Suse 10.2 box? I understand that the RAM usage is generally low.
>>
>> - Joel
>
> I routinely use 2 GB of real memory plus another 1 GB of swap.
>
> RAM usage is entirely dependent upon what YOU do with the machine,
> so whoever told you that was talking through his anal orifice.

More data points for your amusement -

My home mail/web/dns server (10.2/x86_64) has 1 GB RAM and it's a bit tight:

top - 10:26:18 up 71 days, 13:07,  2 users,  load average: 0.14, 0.13, 0.06
Tasks: 119 total,   1 running, 118 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.4%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 96.3%id,  1.9%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.1%si, 
0.0%st
Mem:    962300k total,   866524k used,    95776k free,    39684k buffers
Swap:  2104504k total,   650148k used,  1454356k free,   124940k cached


My home desktop machine (10.2/i386) has 1 GB RAM, and is just beginning
to get into swap - 

top - 10:21:58 up 6 days, 11:17, 10 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.09
Tasks: 142 total,   1 running, 140 sleeping,   1 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.3%us,  1.8%sy,  2.8%ni, 92.7%id,  0.2%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st
Mem:   1028000k total,   975796k used,    52204k free,    39020k buffers
Swap:  1052248k total,     5724k used,  1046524k free,   260872k cached


OTOH my firewall/dns/dhcp server (10.1/i386) an old compaq deskpro is OK
w/ 265 MB RAM:

top - 10:28:10 up 15 days, 21:33,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks:  51 total,   1 running,  50 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.1% us,  0.1% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.5% id,  0.2% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.1% si
Mem:    256784k total,   245492k used,    11292k free,    90472k buffers
Swap:   786736k total,      108k used,   786628k free,    33972k cached

Joe





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