From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 07:31:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF4437B401 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mail.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518D643F93 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:31:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from l.ertl@univie.ac.at) Received: from pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at (pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.2.177]) by mailbox.univie.ac.at (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h6TEVEao112190; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:31:32 +0200 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:31:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl To: Poul-Henning Kamp In-Reply-To: <74044.1059399952@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: <20030729162538.P334@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> References: <74044.1059399952@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-DCC-ZID-Univie-Metrics: unet 4261; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Highly loaded machine getting slower and slower X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:31:41 -0000 On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20030728151919.S334@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>, Lukas Ertl writes: > >Hi there, > > > >I'm having again problems with a highly loaded 5.1-current machine. The > >box is a 2.4GHz Dual Xeon (HTT enabled) with 1GB RAM and acts as a news > >server/feeder running diablo. It's pumping out 120+Mbit/sec over Gigabit > >without a glitch, but after some time, it's getting slower and slower, > >until it seems to completely freeze, but it's still alive, just _very_ > >unresponsive and in fact has to be rebooted. > > Run a shell script in cron every 5 minutes where you record > date > sysctl kern.malloc > sysctl vm.zone > swapinfo > ps -axlw > > and look out for anything which just gobbles up more and more > memory. Unfortunately, this didn't show anything significant. But I've played around a little and built a kernel without WITNESS and friends, but with "options ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES". Now the box is up for almost five hours and is still running, which really surprised us. :-) Throughput is ok, but the limiting factor currently seems to be disk I/O. It's a pity that ciss(4) isn't more performant right now. Anyway, we hope the box stays up and we'll keep monitoring that. regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Vienna University Computer Center Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 University of Vienna http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/