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Date:      Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:36:03 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Eddie Fry <eddie@eaznet.com>
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: email & web slow 
Message-ID:  <21757.903483363@gjp.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:54:56 PDT." <35D9F830.C0A41637@eaznet.com> 

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Eddie Fry wrote in message ID
<35D9F830.C0A41637@eaznet.com>:
> When our dial up service gets busy, qpopper and Apache tend to slow down
> noticably.  I've checked things out with TOP and the CPU stays over 90%
> idle even during peak times.  Would adding another NIC and moving mail
> to that interface help speed things up?  I'm not real certain where the
> bottleneck lies.  The console seems to run fine and disk activity isn't
> overabundant.  Any ideas?  We're running 10baseT at the moment  but our
> collision rates don't seem high.  Our PM3 reports the following:

check systat -v 1 ... I bet you are bottling on Ddisk I/O... you may
even be running out of memory in that configuration.

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info

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