From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 13: 6: 8 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 C64A737B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from voo.doo.net (voo.doo.net [81.17.45.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B287343E65 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by voo.doo.net (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7UK5uHi029133; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:05:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:05:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders X-X-Sender: To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020830220253.N29127-100000@voo.doo.net> X-Preferred-email-to: marc@schneiders.org X-Other-email-to: marc@venster.nl X-Organization: Venster (Zeist - NL) X-URL: http://www.bijt.net/ X-SOA: A.ROOT-SERVERS.ORSC. X-OS: FreeBSD: The Power to Serve 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, at 14:42 [=GMT-0400], Matthew Emmerton wrote: > 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. That is my experience too, running it on two dual Pentium Pro machines. > 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)? Yes. And in any case, my problem does not diminish when I don't run dnetc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message