[Soekris] Memory upgrade

[Kevin Steves]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:02:28PM +0100, Farid Hajji wrote:
: I'm using FreeBSD (6.3-PRE) on a net4801 (128 MB) running as
: a ppp router with pf. Servers are lighttpd for many domains,
: (Apache is too memory hungry), postfix, cyrus-imap, dhcpd, nfsd,
: named, ntpd. There's still enough memory for a couple more (I've
: used ctorrent on it too without problems, though I prefer to run
: mldonkey on an internal machine and just relay torrent traffic
: from and to it with pf).
: 
: So if 128 MB are good enough for this, 256 MB would be more than
: comfortable... unless you plan to run memory hungry stuff.

Agree, it all depends on what you are going to do.  The following is
from a net4521 (64MB memory) acting as a cellular wifi router
and running OpenBSD.

# ps aux 
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS TT  STAT  STARTED       TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  1.4   372   916 ??  Is    11:11AM    0:00.17 /sbin/init
root     12132  0.0  1.0   480   668 ??  Is    11:12AM    0:00.08 syslogd: [priv] (syslogd)
_syslogd 19081  0.0  1.4   956   912 ??  I     11:12AM    0:01.75 syslogd -s /var/run/syslogd.sock -a /var/named/dev/log -a /var/empty/dev/log
_dhcp    14161  0.0  1.4   468   928 ??  Is    11:12AM    0:00.39 /usr/sbin/dhcpd wi0
root      2197  0.0  1.2  1660   756 ??  Is    11:12AM    0:00.08 named: [priv] (named)
named    16762  0.0  5.2  2844  3348 ??  S     11:12AM    0:36.09 named
root     24950  0.0  1.2   416   792 ??  Is    11:12AM    0:00.22 ntpd: [priv] (ntpd)
_ntp     15284  0.0  1.2   424   792 ??  S     11:12AM    0:03.43 ntpd: ntp engine (ntpd)
root      4256  0.0  1.6   672  1016 ??  Is    11:12AM    0:00.17 /usr/sbin/sshd -oUseDNS=no
root     26400  0.0 13.9   344  9044 ??  S<s   11:12AM    0:01.75 watchdogd -q
root     23285  0.0  1.3   632   836 ??  Is    11:12AM    0:01.49 cron
root     12098  0.0  1.6   500  1004 ??  Ss    11:12AM    0:03.00 ifstated
root      3547  0.0  1.0   436   636 ??  Is    11:12AM    0:00.03 /usr/sbin/hotplugd
root     17238  0.0  1.7   644  1128 ??  Is    11:12AM    0:00.55 pppd call ac875
root     16597  0.7  3.3  3276  2120 ??  Rs     9:04AM    0:05.59 sshd: root at ttyp1 (sshd)
root      5311  0.0  1.7   464  1104 p1  Ss     9:04AM    0:01.05 -ksh (ksh)
root      2071  0.0  1.2   272   764 p1  R+     9:54AM    0:00.00 ps -aux
root     19949  0.0  1.3   308   820 00  Is+   11:12AM    0:00.11 /usr/libexec/getty std.19200 tty00
# vmstat
 procs   memory        page                    disks     traps         cpu
 r b w    avm    fre   flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr wd0 rd0  int   sys   cs us sy id
 0 1 0   8100  20752     1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  231     5    3  0  1 99