[mohaa] curious behavior

[charles 'wokka' goldsmith]

yes, unix makes hell of a lot better servers...  espcially game servers...

what all servers you working on for qc?  I'll be there again this year, will
buy you a beer if you are up for it :)

wokka

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles "BedMan" Bedford" <bedman at quakecon.org>
To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 10:38 PM
Subject: RE: [mohaa] curious behavior


> True wokka,
>
> My point was unclear.  I was trying to say that available ram == free +
> inactive.
>
> Unixes in general make better use of ram (and in more documentable ways)
> than your typical windows box.  And - if you're really currious, you can
> always go to the source code in the kernel :-o
>
> Ya - it's been a while wokka :-)  I've been busy with QuakeCon server
> configs :-)
>
> -- Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: charles 'wokka' goldsmith [mailto:wokka at justfamily.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:05 PM
> To: mohaa at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [mohaa] curious behavior
>
>
> Bedman, long time no talk, but you contradicted yourself on free ram :)
>
> In your example, you have 2 megs of free ram, and 320 inactive... this is
> exactly the point i was making, it uses all available ram, and holds a
> majority of it in inactive state, which it will give up to processes if
they
> need it
>
> and your points on swap are correct, which is a given in most os's ;^)
>
> wokka
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles "BedMan" Bedford" <bedman at quakecon.org>
> To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:19 PM
> Subject: RE: [mohaa] curious behavior
>
>
> > If you will note the following line:
> > Mem: 35M Active, 319M Inact, 58M Wired, 21M Cache, 54M Buf, 2840K Free
> > Swap: 881M Total, 8K Used, 881M Free
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: charles 'wokka' goldsmith [mailto:wokka at justfamily.org]
>
> > linux will always use up all of the ram according to ps and top
> > however, it will nicely give up ram to processes that need it, until it
> runs
> > out of course...
> >
> > its hard to gauge ram usage in linux...
> > but you should be fine with 2 gigs with what you have running
> >
> > wokka
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