hi folks, I am observing that for a machine with the following specs:-
Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #3: Thu Jan 26 20:38:29 SGT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IX-NW Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2791.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x4400<CNTX-ID,<b14>> Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs real memory = 4160552960 (3967 MB) avail memory = 4074123264 (3885 MB) -- snip -- amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.51> mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebfffff irq 72 at device 8.0 on pci8 amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4/Di> Firmware 2.37, BIOS 1.05, 128MB RAM -- snip -- amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 amrd0: 104034MB (213061632 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) ses0 at amr0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 ses0: <PE/PV 1x6 SCSI BP 1.1> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device configured with:- em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU> -- snip -- ether 00:0b:db:94:f8:65 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active and running cacti/snmp applications (to poll 83 network devices/1831 interfaces in less then 9secs for every 300sec) is hitting these kind of gstats dT: 0.501 flag_I 500000us sizeof 240 i -1 L(q) ops/s r/s kBps ms/r w/s kBps ms/w d/s kBps ms/d %busy Name 46 315 0 0 0.0 315 5491 138.3 0 0 0.0 99.9| amrd0 46 315 0 0 0.0 315 5491 139.8 0 0 0.0 99.9| amrd0s1 46 315 0 0 0.0 315 5491 139.9 0 0 0.0 99.9| amrd0s1f for consistently few minutes... while the memory condition is reported to be:- Active: 288006144 Bytes Inactive: 3293306880 Bytes Wired: 218345472 Bytes Reserved: 5644288 Bytes Cache: 192761856 Bytes Kernel: 139264 Bytes Interrupt: 8192 Bytes Buffer: 117211136 Bytes Total: 4078235648 Bytes Free: 85340160 Bytes my question would be is that an acceptible behaviour? i.e. should i look for upgrade or is there a tuning which can still make something out of it? because when i access this m/c for usual tasks of editing files and copy stuff it sometimes hangs for few minutes.. it is a source compiled box with the following make.conf --- make.conf --- # apache WITH_APACHE_PERF_TUNING=yes WITH_THREADS_MODULES=yes # libiconv WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS=yes # php WITH_GD=yes # gd WITH_XPM=yes WITH_LZW=yes # mysql WITH_CHARSET=latin1 WITH_XCHARSET=latin1 WITH_PROC_SCOPE_PTH=yes BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes BUILD_STATIC=yes #mtr WITHOUT_X11=yes # snmp NET_SNMP_SYS_CONTACT="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" NET_SNMP_SYS_LOCATION="Telepark" DEFAULT_SNMP_VERSION=3 NET_SNMP_MIB_MODULES="host smux ucd-snmp/diskio" NET_SNMP_LOGFILE=/var/log/snmpd.log NET_SNMP_PERSISTENTDIR=/var/net-snmp #make MAKEOPTS=-j4 #noprofile NO_PROFILE= true # added by use.perl 2006-01-26 21:28:26 PERL_VER=5.8.7 PERL_VERSION=5.8.7 --- make.conf --- while cacti is doing pretty fine... 06/22/2006 06:10:09 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:7.9338 Method:cactid Processes:1 Threads:30 Hosts:83 HostsPerProcess:83 DataSources:3218 RRDsProcessed:1831 06/22/2006 06:15:12 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:9.7663 Method:cactid Processes:1 Threads:30 Hosts:83 HostsPerProcess:83 DataSources:3218 RRDsProcessed:1819 06/22/2006 06:20:09 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:7.6809 Method:cactid Processes:1 Threads:30 Hosts:83 HostsPerProcess:83 DataSources:3218 RRDsProcessed:1831 06/22/2006 06:25:10 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:8.2421 Method:cactid Processes:1 Threads:30 Hosts:83 HostsPerProcess:83 DataSources:3218 RRDsProcessed:1831 06/22/2006 06:30:10 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:8.6010 Method:cactid Processes:1 Threads:30 Hosts:83 HostsPerProcess:83 DataSources:3218 RRDsProcessed:1831 Any assistance on where to look for an appropriate tuning would be much appreciated. -- Best Regards. _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"