From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 6:39:28 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 A116F37B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 06:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from voo.doo.net (voo.doo.net [81.17.45.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC2C43E3B for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 06:39:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by voo.doo.net (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g81DdB9e089154; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:39:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:39:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders X-X-Sender: To: Unix Tools Cc: Matthew Emmerton , Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020901153734.S89143-100000@voo.doo.net> X-Preferred-email-to: marc@schneiders.org X-Other-email-to: marc@venster.nl X-Organization: Venster (Zeist - NL) X-URL: http://www.bijt.net/ X-SOA: A.ROOT-SERVERS.ORSC. X-OS: FreeBSD: The Power to Serve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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