Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:55:20 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable Message-ID: <20060216065520.GA66655@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060213022747.6878E45041@ptavv.es.net> References: <43A136C7.9040302@plab.ku.dk> <20060213022747.6878E45041@ptavv.es.net>
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--azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:27:47PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Well, I have tracked the problem down a bit. It happens when the system > runs out of memory and starts to use the swap file. The glimpse indexing > operation is very memory intensive and under V6 it simply crawls when it > starts paging. On my old 256 MB system, this operation was taking over 6 > hours. On my new system (1 GB), it takes about 7 minutes.=20 Can you try increasing the vm.swap_async_max sysctl to 32 and see if that helps with the speed of paging? Kris --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD9CHYWry0BWjoQKURAlsTAJ9hxTOulJ+NCHlMDqK0f4QE2d5CHgCgwm8b x3pUG6JJJaYsCyUcEitY/9U= =Z4xi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--
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