On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:38:18AM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:27:17AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein scribbled:
> | * Michael C . Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010320 09:11] wrote:
> | > Physical memory is 2.5 GB. We do MFS and it croaks/crashes
> | > at midnight, our peak load time. We do md0, it croaks before
> | > peak time.
> |
> | Explain the crash. What is md0/MFS being used for? Why do you
> | need it?
>
> md0/MFS is used for caching the articles that BBS users read.
> They often read the same articles over and over again,
> and we find that a 128MB MFS/md0 will have 70% hitrate
>
> When our MFS/md0 fills up after long usage, the box easily
> dies. (We crontab clean the mfs, but sometimes the load
> shoots up for no reason and is not able to clean the mfs in time.)
> If we dont do this cache, the data for the bulletin boards
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how much swap is there on
this machine? Is the combination of the packed MFS and high process
load exhausting your swap?
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