Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:42:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> Cc: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>, Ganesh Kumar <alganesh@m-net.arbornet.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208301436140.69211-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020830194314.GC56964@vectors.cx>
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >> (08.30.2002 @ 1157 PST): Marc Schneiders said, in 2.2K: << > > I did, and the load is low. There is more than enough RAM, swap isn't > > ever used. See top output below, with a remark: If I do not run > > dnetc, it doesn't get better. > > > > last pid: 28885; load averages: 1.02, 1.08, 1.02 up 39+03:29:08 20:56:06 > > 26 processes: 2 running, 24 sleeping > > that's a low load? i'd hate to see your system under a heavy load. > > i find it hard to believe that not running dnetc wouldn't improve speed. > dnetc is very CPU intensive, and will slow down a system. While that's true, I've found dnetc to be very un-intrusive. I run it all the time on my machines (dual P166's - yes, that's Pentium One) and I never have performance problems - it just adjusts it's priority when I come in to actually use the machine. One thing though - are you sure you've got dnetc configured to run at the lowest priority (at-idle), so that it will give up the CPU when it is needed for something else (thttpd, vi, etc)? -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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