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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:10:55 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Paul MacKenzie <bsdlist@cogeco.ca>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE: arcmsr write performance problem
Message-ID:  <200812152010.mBFKAlZf084580@lava.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4946B6EF.5080806@cogeco.ca>
References:  <2515BCEE3A2F4CBA8FFB9F1C052924AA@jmlaptop> <4934CB77.30906@transactionware.com> <494698E4.2070406@cogeco.ca> <200812151900.mBFJ0Jom084267@lava.sentex.ca> <4946B6EF.5080806@cogeco.ca>

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At 02:58 PM 12/15/2008, Paul MacKenzie wrote:

>This used to be on a 4.11x system with 1 cpu and only 1gb of ram and 
>ran flawlessly with much less resources with the same web site code 
>for a long time. I do not have this problem on the other 7.0 
>machine. I originally thought it was just a cpu issue but it is very 
>closely tied to when something is trying to use the raid arrays and 
>this seems to be the way to reproduce it.
>
>I am having a hard time determining why the system load is so high. 
>Can you recommend the best way to identify the culprit?

What does top -S show ? Most of the load is in system.  Does the 
machine in question have a rather large master.passwd file by chance ?
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75855)
         ---Mike 




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