[BozemanLUG] Memory, spam and the march of progress

[David Eder]

It is 60, so I guess that's not it.

David.


> Have you, or your distro, played with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness?
>
> I've usually seen 60 on most distros, and if it's different this might
> explain your swap oddness.  :)
>
> j
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:28 AM, David Eder <david at eder.us> wrote:
>> I've been running apache, mysql, postfix, named, and a full desktop for
>> several years now without very many bumps, but I think I'm hitting a
>> memory bump now.  I seem to be using 800+MB of swap.  I'm used to only
>> seeing a few hundred K.  Needless to say, the system is too slow when
>> running out of swap this much.
>>
>> Many will remember my rants at the meetings about KDE4 memory leaks.
>> While
>> the memory leaks are real (every changelog seems to include plugging
>> these
>> as a major feature), I do not believe that it is my real issue.
>>
>> I think software is just fatter in general and I've hit the limit of
>> what
>> I can do on a single box with 2GB ram.
>>
>> I'm looking for ways to trim the fat without loosing anything or having
>> to
>> buy anything.
>>
>> I've move to XFCE, dropped amavisd, spamassassin and clamav in postfix,
>> reduced the spare servers for apache (might go back to lighttpd).  I may
>> run without flash in Opera.  It seems to take hundreds of MB for no
>> apparent reason.
>>
>> Any advice on further trimming, spam reduction, etc would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> I don't mind if you tell me I'm nuts or explain to me that I'm chasing
>> my
>> tail.
>>
>> David.
>>
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