From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 22 22:51:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA23348 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 22:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA23337 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 22:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrcpu@cdsnet.net) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA27340; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 22:51:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 22:51:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: David Greenman cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serious performance issue with 2.2.5-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <199711222140.NAA09250@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I do not believe so. What ever it is definitely appears related to swapping/paging somehow. I get these LA spikes in the several hundreds, the disk light is on solid for 2-3 minutes, then it all goes away. System accounting doesn't show any unusual pattern of apps being run. The vast majority are perl scripts. There's about 1100 processes on the machine, give or take a few, with about 80MB RAM free. NFS is compiled in, but not used. I have also disabled ntpd thinking something was hanging there, but no dice. On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >I upgraded my web server to 2.2.5 from 2.2.2-stable, dated sometime in > >July. > > > >Big mistake. > > > >The only update to take place was the make buildworld, make installworld, > >no other configuration files were modified, nor any changes to startup > >scripts, etc. > > > >I now get these weird pauses where everything on the machine just freezes > >for 30-40 seconds, sometimes longer. NFS is compiled in, but not in use. > > > >The system was a web server, and was happily serving up several hundred > >domains. Now with the upgrade, I'll be lucky to keep them. Not good. > > > >It's a Super Micro P6, 384MB RAM, 2 SCSI disks off a bus-logic controller. > > > >Any ideas appreciated. I have built a new kernel from sources supped > >11/7, but it doesn't seem to be any better. > > Is it possible that the slowness could actually be a network related > problem involving the updated 'de' driver in 2.2.5? > > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project >