From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 10:27:26 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 6B4C937B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (oe51.pav2.hotmail.com [64.4.36.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1294443E42 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:27:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unixtools@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:27:19 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [202.41.224.36] From: "Unix Tools" To: "Marc Schneiders" Cc: "Matthew Emmerton" , References: <20020901153734.S89143-100000@voo.doo.net> Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:11:47 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Sep 2002 17:27:19.0082 (UTC) FILETIME=[FD3278A0:01C252A5] 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 Get the outputof netstat and sockstat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Schneiders" To: "Unix Tools" Cc: "Matthew Emmerton" ; Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 07:09 PM Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? > On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, at 01:30 [=GMT+0530], Unix Tools wrote: > > > Could you please print your top output here, > > Below it is, while doing buildworld, which it is at since 15 hours, > now building libperl. > > last pid: 89142; load averages: 1.27, 1.11, 1.09 up 40+22:10:19 15:37:17 > 40 processes: 2 running, 38 sleeping > > Mem: 55M Active, 475M Inact, 71M Wired, 19M Cache, 73M Buf, 6280K Free > Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free > > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 89140 root 55 0 3976K 3884K RUN 0:14 68.90% 46.00% cc1 > 89139 root -6 0 2220K 1856K pipdwt 0:06 16.97% 11.33% cpp0 > 29017 root 2 0 2456K 1752K select 1:46 1.56% 1.56% sshd > 95 root 2 0 4480K 3928K select 338:03 0.00% 0.00% named > 108 root 2 0 2352K 1492K select 88:57 0.00% 0.00% sshd > 97 root 2 0 1332K 816K select 51:05 0.00% 0.00% ntpd > 84007 nobody 2 0 1132K 812K select 12:46 0.00% 0.00% boa > 92 root 2 0 960K 584K select 12:33 0.00% 0.00% syslogd > 92235 root 2 0 2456K 1720K select 9:57 0.00% 0.00% sshd > 178 root 2 0 2792K 2208K select 4:05 0.00% 0.00% named > 106 root 10 0 1008K 664K nanslp 3:49 0.00% 0.00% cron > 27475 root 2 0 3600K 2664K select 1:19 0.00% 0.00% named > 34592 root 2 0 3016K 2408K select 0:47 0.00% 0.00% sendmail > 114 smmsp 18 0 2812K 1704K pause 0:36 0.00% 0.00% sendmail > 29009 root 2 0 2456K 1752K select 0:28 0.00% 0.00% sshd > 97342 nobody 2 0 1860K 1520K kqread 0:28 0.00% 0.00% thttpd > 152 root 2 0 3448K 2432K select 0:19 0.00% 0.00% snmpd > 88818 root 10 0 1748K 1616K wait 0:09 0.00% 0.00% make > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Marc Schneiders" > > To: "Matthew Emmerton" > > Cc: > > Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 01:35 AM > > Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message