From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 14:35:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA16707 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tombstone.sunrem.com ([206.81.134.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16683 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brandon@localhost) by tombstone.sunrem.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA06385; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:35:07 -0600 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:35:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: procfs on a different disk.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have several systems running FreeBSD, one of which I just upgraded to 20MB ram (from 8). It has a virtually identical configuration to another system here, with the exception that the SCSI card it ended up with does not allow booting. Because of this I was forced to drop in the first IDE HD I could find. I set it up as the root disk and placed everything else on the SCSI disk (the SCSI disk is a quality disk, and is the exact same as on the other system). However, I had not completely considered what would occur. Despite the nearly exact configuration (same CPUs, mathco's cache setup--the only difference is the motherboards, one has 72pin simms the other 30pin--same ns on the ram), the machine with the IDE hard drive has horrible latencies and high CPU %'s in the stats. What I'm considering is that the root partition is used more than I suspected, and that the IDE disk in it is old (which it is), and the bottleneck is appearing there-slowing down all processes. Assuming this were the case what points on the root partition are high-disk usage? procfs? Would it be safe to create a /usr/proc and to change the fstab to use it, instead of /proc when next booting (this would put the procfs on the scsi disk)? Suggestions? Buy a new SCSI controller? Anybody want a cheap-new SCSI controller? ;) -Brandon Gillespie