From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 16 2:23:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274FB37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 02:23:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from perrin.int.nxad.com (internal.ext.nxad.com [69.1.70.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9552343F3F for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 02:23:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@perrin.int.nxad.com) Received: by perrin.int.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id ECA732108A; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 02:23:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 02:23:02 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server feels sluggish ... Message-ID: <20030316102302.GD66903@perrin.int.nxad.com> References: <20030316022218.V65381@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030316022218.V65381@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3849 3760 1AFE 7B17 11A0 83A6 DD99 E31F BC84 B341 X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Okay, this has to be the worst report of all time, but one of my > ligher loaded servers feels more sluggish then the heavy loaded one > ... starting commands seems to 'hang' for a bit and then go, > changing folders in mail takes forever, etc ... yet there is about a > 1/4 the processes running on this system ... so this is more a 'is > there something I shuld be looking at' kinda email, since I can't > pinpoint anything as being wrong, it just *feels* sluggish :( man iostat && iostat -w 1 man vmstat && vmstat -w 1 Hardware? Do you know how many processes are blocking at the moment? Do you know how many should be blocking? -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message