Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
as ram and cpu. they is enough. is there any way to increase disk performance without causing any problem ? So in one second, the disk hits 100% utilization, weather it's reading or writing data to disk. You said above that I rarely see -- so even though, as a server, you're running slow

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-06 Thread Yavuz
on this machine. When I type systat 1 -vmstat on command line, even I rarely see that disk usage hits 100%. I have no problem as ram and cpu. they is enough. is there any way to increase disk performance without causing any problem ? sysctl vfs.read_max=32 can help read performance

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-05 Thread Yavuz
server which has services like pop3,imap,smtp and webmail on this machine. When I type systat 1 -vmstat on command line, even I rarely see that disk usage hits 100%. I have no problem as ram and cpu. they is enough. is there any way to increase disk performance without causing any problem

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
has services like pop3,imap,smtp and webmail on this machine. When I type systat 1 -vmstat on command line, even I rarely see that disk usage hits 100%. I have no problem as ram and cpu. they is enough. is there any way to increase disk performance without causing any problem ? sysctl

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Yavuz wrote: Ok. I increased vfs.read_max while I was looking into this case in google, I see a value of MAXPHYS in my kernel, there is a value called MAXPHYS=(128*1024) as default. What should I set this value ? Neither vfs.read_max nor MAXPHYS will help a mail server (or any other server

is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-04 Thread Yavuz
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Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-04 Thread Bill Moran
have no problem as ram and cpu. they is enough. is there any way to increase disk performance without causing any problem ? 7200 RPM is a slow disk. You may be hardware bound. Have a look at gstat and see how long read and write requests are taking. If you have questions, post actual gstat

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-04 Thread Adam Vande More
. they is enough. is there any way to increase disk performance without causing any problem ? sysctl vfs.read_max=32 can help read performance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
. is there any way to increase disk performance without causing any problem ? i don't understand your problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-04 Thread Tim Judd
. they is enough. is there any way to increase disk performance without causing any problem ? So in one second, the disk hits 100% utilization, weather it's reading or writing data to disk. You said above that I rarely see -- so even though, as a server, you're running slow spindles, you are doing