try installing iostat that should give you a measure of how much cpu time disk access costs you.
the hardware seems appropriate to me I use software IDE raid 5 maybe there is some problem with your scsi driver?? brad On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 16:51, John Coston wrote: > it's software RAID-1 using two fast wide scsi 36 gb discs. Filesystem > is ext3. We have one 30gb partition for share data, and the rest is for > system and swap. > here is some of output from dmesg: > > md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. > <...> > scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512 > scsi1 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512 > blk: queue c3c57618, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Vendor: HP Model: 36.4GB C 80-8C32 Rev: > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > blk: queue c3c57818, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Vendor: HP 36.4G Model: MAN3367MC Rev: HP04 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > <...> > > I'm not too swift on filesystems and discs, so let me know if there is > more info you need & thanks > > > On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 01:40 PM, Bradley W. Langhorst > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:57, John Coston wrote: > >> 12:46pm up 2 days, 17:14, 3 users, load average: 20.24, 20.26, > >> 20.51 > >> 129 processes: 106 sleeping, 23 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > >> CPU states: 36.1% user, 63.8% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > >> Mem: 3229040K av, 3166372K used, 62668K free, 0K shrd, > > > > i have about 20 users on a 900Mhz machine with 100G of storage (only > > 384M ram) > > > > i don't think it's ever been cpu bound as a result of samba activity. > > > > that 63.8% system seems out of whack... > > what is the disk subsystem? > > > > brad > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba