From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 19:55:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227AF16A41F for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:55:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marianobe@gmx.net) Received: from postino4.prima.com.ar (postino4.prima.com.ar [200.42.0.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B5CE43D46 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:55:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marianobe@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 38548 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2005 19:55:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (mbenedettini@200.122.3.70) by postino4.prima.com.ar with SMTP; 23 Sep 2005 19:55:08 -0000 Message-ID: <43345D9A.8040105@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:55:06 -0300 From: Mariano Benedettini User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050425) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <15412.1126634818@www56.gmx.net> <20050922214142.N50836@zoraida.natserv.net> <43336294.2020403@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <43336294.2020403@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Francisco Reyes , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:55:14 -0000 Thanks for all the replies. It's not a HD problem. On monday I'll increase the number of nfsd processes and the number of nfsiod on the client, setting both to 50, I think that the nfs performance will be much better :-) Mariano. Eric Anderson wrote: > Francisco Reyes wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, mariano benedettini wrote: >> >>> 91.3% idle >> >> >> >> CPU is not the problem. :-) >> >> >>> Mem: 1599M Active, 1704M Inact, 311M Wired, 189M Cache, 112M Buf, 14M >>> Free >>> Swap: 2023M Total, 184K Used, 2023M Free >> >> >> >> Swap is not the problem. >> >> >> Do >> vmstat 10 >> >> Watch the output. >> In particular look at the first 3 columns. >> procs >> r b w >> 1 1 0 >> 0 1 0 >> 1 1 0 >> >> The left most column is CPU, the second column is disk IO. >> >> If you have a number in the "b" column and it never hits 0 you have an >> I/O problem. You HDs are not catching up. >> >> If you are using NFS and the "b" colun is not high and hits 0 some/all >> the time then the bottleneck is either the nfs connection or the nfs >> server. >> >> For example I have some servers that the "b" column would be between >> 20 and 60 for a while. I am currently working on removing some of the >> load of the machine. In my case more memory would help, but the >> computer vendor we bought the machine from has sent us the wrong >> memory 3 TIMES!! > > > Also, if it is an NFS server, one should check the cpu times on the nfsd > processes. I've found that many times there aren't enough nfsd > processes to take the load from many clients. Increasing the number > (double it) often helps this. The max in 5.3 is 20, but you can easily > change it and get around it. > > Eric > > > >