From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 20:55:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from intranet.com.mx (intranet.com.mx [200.33.246.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F3537B719 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 20:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbiquez@icsmx.com) Received: from jbiquez.intranet.com.mx (200.33.246.41) by intranet.com.mx with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 3.0.2) for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:55:55 -0600 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010304225352.02763490@icsmx.com> X-Sender: jbiquez@icsmx.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 22:53:54 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jorge Biquez Subject: Usage of resources. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all. I'm running FreeBSD 3.2 as a web server only with Apache. Nothing else. I have some sites there that all average about 800,000 pages each month (all of them). Top gives me this information: --------------------- last pid: 4873; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 0+11:19:07 01:12:28 32 processes: 1 running, 31 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.4% interrupt, 99.6% idle Mem: 24M Active, 66M Inact, 18M Wired, 8348K Buf, 259M Free Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free --------------------- My Machine is a Pentium III 384 MB of RAM an IDE HD with 8 GB. It is running very good (today I shutdown because I increase the memory in another 128 MB after 75 days without a problem). What would be your advice, on experiences about increase the speed of my server? I guess memory is not a problem since even with 256MB of RAM Swap was always 512M Total, 512M Free. It never apparently, used swap area. I was thinking on changing the IDE disk for an SCSI one. Of course I know I can change for another pentium, maybe a pentium III 750 Mhz or 850 Mhz but I'm not sure it that will increase a LOT the performance. Please understand that the machine is running really fine but I'm curious what will you do in my case since I'm not an expert , yet, on FreeBSD. Maybe changing the LAN card?. If I upgrade to 4.2 will I have an increase in performance just for that? Thanks in advance for your advice. If you feel like answer me privately please do it at jbiquez@icsmx.com JB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message