From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 18 16:37:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28593 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:37:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28577 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA21761; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:36:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) To: Eddie Fry cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: email & web slow In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:54:56 PDT." <35D9F830.C0A41637@eaznet.com> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:36:03 -0400 Message-ID: <21757.903483363@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message