On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:55:35AM -0400, Matthew Harrell wrote:
> Well, it's above 1 but below 10.
It's a dual-CPU box, right? Then you should be aiming for load avg. less
than 2, otherwise runable jobs are waiting for a CPU.
> They're on the same machine. Memory didn't seem to be my limitation and I
> thought a remote nameserver might cause more latency. I might try it and see
> what happens, though.
You had said that top was showing full memory usage, and your machine
was swapping a little. If the nameserver is on the same ethernet segment
you shouldn't see latency problems and the extra memory should
reduce swapping further. What's being swapped isn't really an issue -
the act of swapping causes severe performance degredation.
james
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