Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:04:22 -0400 From: "bill" <bill@TechServSys.com> To: freeBSD-Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: slooooow httpd serving Message-ID: <3D64A916.258.7CC80@localhost> In-Reply-To: <72992B39BBD9294BB636A960E89AE02E9534CF@hermes.webwasher.com>
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On 22 Aug 2002 at 13:50, Maurice Smulders wrote: > Bill, > > an adaptec 1542 is an ISA bus master controller, and does not really like when there is more than 16MB of RAM. It cannot address more. I don't know how the FreeBSD driver is made, but worst case a lot of memory shuffling has to be done for I/O... Try to take 16MB out, and see what happens. > > Maurice > It used to be a database server and did not have a problem at all with 32 Meg. I literally only added the nic and loaded freeBSD/Apache. -bill- > -----Original Message----- > From: bill [mailto:bill@TechServSys.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 1:26 PM > To: freeBSD-Questions > Subject: slooooow httpd serving > > > I have more or less successfully built my first freeBSD system to be a > webserver and configured Apache for virtual hosts and all seems well, except: > > when it is serving a large (100k) graphic it is slower than mud going uphill. > > hardware: > 485-66, 32Mb ram > The nic is an intel pro/10 > scsi disk subsystem with an adaptec 1542c (I think it is a c, not sure - but it > ran a complex database application before it was retired for a faster machine) > > Top says: > load averages 0.00 0.01 0.00 > top is using 0.93% > sendmail is using 0.00 > httpd is using 0.00 > > watching top I see that httpd goes to RUN about once every 3 seconds. > > > netstat shows a very large send q: 33580 until the browser apparently gives > up. > when I reload the page the q goes up again and it _finishes_ displaying the > image. > > I could use some help in figuring out what is so slow. > > Also, may or may not be related: I have not configured Sendmail yet and it > gets unhappy and panics every morning when it can't deliver something. > > -bill- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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