From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 12:56:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7672137B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts17.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC0443E3B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.177.86]) by tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020830195644.IMRW7912.tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:56:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g7UIgr969265; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:42:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:42:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Adam Weinberger Cc: Marc Schneiders , Ganesh Kumar , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? In-Reply-To: <20020830194314.GC56964@vectors.cx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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