[ale] eth0: Memory Squeeze

[Vaidhy Mayilrangam]

Hi Chris,

What is the message ??

Vaidhy

On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:32:52PM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm getting this message on my Gateway/Firewall machine.  It may be way
> overloaded.  It has only 16megs of memory and is running the following
> services:
> 
> ssh
> pppd
> squid
> dhcpd
> named
> masq
> 
> 
> It is in more swap then memory but is not using it all up.  Last check it
> was only using 10%.  If this is the case why should memory be an issue.
> I've worked on machines that had way more paging space than ram for
> economical reasons and had 0 issues.  The only issue I was faced with was at
> a full utilization of memory and paging space with no more disk to expand
> the volume.  These machines were HP-UX and AIX.  I guess there is no way
> around this other than upgrading the memory?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
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