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Date:      Sun, 04 Jul 1999 00:00:50 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        JMS Internet <webmaster@jmsinternet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Server Slowdown 
Message-ID:  <199907040500.AAA29436@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from JMS Internet <webmaster@jmsinternet.com>  of "Sat, 03 Jul 1999 09:53:09 PDT." <4.1.19990703094749.00abc430@mail.sirius.com> 

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JMS Internet writes:
> Here is some more information about my system:
> Intel PII 350, 384 Megs of RAM, 2 Multi-Gig hard drives (neither at capacity).
[...]
> FROM SYSTAT:
>     1 users    Load  0.76  0.86  0.76                  Sat Jul  3 09:52
> 
> Mem:KB    REAL            VIRTUAL                     VN PAGER  SWAP PAGER
>         Tot   Share      Tot    Share    Free         in  out     in  out
> Act   60648     724   141864      860   16868 count
> All  382964    1784  3282820     2264         pages
>                                                       145 cow    Interrupts
> Proc:r  p  d  s  w    Csw  Trp  Sys  Int  Sof  Flt     73 zfod   1389 total
>      3      241       171  346 2554 1389   71  340  46028 wire    100 clk0 irq0
>                                                     76484 act     128 rtc0 irq8
>  7.1%Sys  13.7%Intr  4.2%User  0.0%Nice 75.0%Idl   243456 inact   343 pci irq11
> |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |      15360 cache       fdc0 irq6
> ====++++++>>-                                        1508 free    818 wdc0
> irq14
>                                                           daefr       wdc1
> irq15
> Namei         Name-cache    Dir-cache                     prcfr
> atkbd0 irq
>     Calls     hits    %     hits    %                     react
>     14218    14183  100        6    0                     pdwake
>                                                           pdpgs
> Discs   fd0   wd0   wd1                                   intrn
> KB/t   0.00  8.94  0.00                              8348 buf
> tps       0    46     0                             29649 desiredvnodes
> MB/s   0.00  0.40  0.00                             20442 numvnodes

A likely culprit is your IDE HD's. Altho I wouldn't think the above 
example is demonstrating a system starved for I/O.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.




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