I'm investigating several reasons for sever slowdowns. What other symptoms are you having? What is your paging subsystem?
>Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:05:46 -0500 >From: Marist EDU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >One of our instances encountered several periods of slowness >yesterday and during my investigation one thing discovered >that the one having the problems wasn't using any of the swap >assigned to it. Below is the output of cat /proc/meminfo, >first on the slow instance then on another instance that is >running fine. Both are SLES7 on z/VM > >wsapp41p:/var/log # cat /proc/meminfo > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: >Mem: 787607552 746356736 41250816 0 117907456 230809600 >Swap: 2147467264 0 2147467264 >MemTotal: 769148 kB >MemFree: 40284 kB >MemShared: 0 kB >Buffers: 115144 kB >Cached: 225400 kB >SwapCached: 0 kB >Active: 52780 kB >Inact_dirty: 287764 kB >Inact_clean: 0 kB >Inact_target: 0 kB >HighTotal: 0 kB >HighFree: 0 kB >LowTotal: 769148 kB >LowFree: 40284 kB >SwapTotal: 2097136 kB >SwapFree: 2097136 kB > >wsapp42p:~ # cat /proc/meminfo > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: >Mem: 787607552 756047872 31559680 0 12533760 338657280 >Swap: 2147467264 2162688 2145304576 >MemTotal: 769148 kB >MemFree: 30820 kB >MemShared: 0 kB >Buffers: 12240 kB >Cached: 328608 kB >SwapCached: 2112 kB >Active: 30820 kB >Inact_dirty: 311384 kB >Inact_clean: 756 kB >Inact_target: 16 kB >HighTotal: 0 kB >HighFree: 0 kB >LowTotal: 769148 kB >LowFree: 30820 kB >SwapTotal: 2097136 kB >SwapFree: 2095024 kB > > > >Josh Konkol, CCSA CNE MCSE >Technical Research Specialist > .~. GuideOne Insurance "If you can't measure it, I'm Just NOT interested!"(tm) /************************************************************/ Barton Robinson - CBW Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Velocity Software, Inc Mailing Address: 196-D Castro Street P.O. Box 390640 Mountain View, CA 94041 Mountain View, CA 94039-0640 VM Performance Hotline: 650-964-8867 Fax: 650-964-9012 Web Page: WWW.VELOCITY-SOFTWARE.COM /************************************************************/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390