Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE

2005-09-23 Thread Eric Anderson
Francisco Reyes wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: You should also increase the rsize and wsize parameters on the mount options for better efficiency. On the server? On the client (in /etc/fstab or on the command line with -o). Eric -- -

Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE

2005-09-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: You should also increase the rsize and wsize parameters on the mount options for better efficiency. On the server? ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE

2005-09-23 Thread Eric Anderson
Mariano Benedettini wrote: Thanks for all the replies. It's not a HD problem. On monday I'll increase the number of nfsd processes and the number of nfsiod on the client, setting both to 50, I think that the nfs performance will be much better :-) 50 nfsiod's may be a bit overkill, but you sh

Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE

2005-09-23 Thread Mariano Benedettini
Thanks for all the replies. It's not a HD problem. On monday I'll increase the number of nfsd processes and the number of nfsiod on the client, setting both to 50, I think that the nfs performance will be much better :-) Mariano. Eric Anderson wrote: Francisco Reyes wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 20

Re: 3Ware 7500-4 Slow

2005-09-23 Thread Eric Anderson
Francisco wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Small writes are pretty much the worst-case scenario for RAID-5, Such as mail servers? How about for a DB server which is mostly read only? normal to see a very significant performance drop-- by up to an order of magnitude-- from the

Re: Finding what's causing I/O

2005-09-23 Thread Eric Anderson
Francisco Reyes wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Joseph Koshy wrote: Is there a way to find out which program(s) are causing the I/O? ktrace(8); you can use it to trace all descendants of 'init'. Looking at the man page it's non-obvious how to use it (to me). Specially it seems one needs to

Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE

2005-09-23 Thread Eric Anderson
Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: Also, if it is an NFS server, one should check the cpu times on the nfsd processes. I've found that many times there aren't enough nfsd processes to take the load from many clients. Increasing the number (double it) often help

Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE

2005-09-23 Thread Shanker Balan
Hello, Francisco Reyes wrote, > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: > > >Also, if it is an NFS server, one should check the cpu times on the nfsd > >processes. I've found that many times there aren't enough nfsd processes > >to take the load from many clients. Increasing the number (dou

Re: Finding what's causing I/O

2005-09-23 Thread Shanker Balan
Hello, Francisco Reyes wrote, > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > >>Is there a way to find out which program(s) are causing the I/O? > > > >ktrace(8); you can use it to trace all descendants of 'init'. > > Looking at the man page it's non-obvious how to use it (to me). > > > Special

Re: 3Ware 7500-4 Slow

2005-09-23 Thread Francisco
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Small writes are pretty much the worst-case scenario for RAID-5, Such as mail servers? How about for a DB server which is mostly read only? normal to see a very significant performance drop-- by up to an order of magnitude-- from the performance of a b

Re: Finding what's causing I/O

2005-09-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Joseph Koshy wrote: Is there a way to find out which program(s) are causing the I/O? ktrace(8); you can use it to trace all descendants of 'init'. Looking at the man page it's non-obvious how to use it (to me). Specially it seems one needs to indicate a pid or a comman

Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE

2005-09-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: Also, if it is an NFS server, one should check the cpu times on the nfsd processes. I've found that many times there aren't enough nfsd processes to take the load from many clients. Increasing the number (double it) often helps this. The max in 5.3

Re: 3Ware 7500-4 Slow

2005-09-23 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 23.09.2005 um 05:05 schrieb Chuck Swiger: I have been trying to convince the "powers that be" that SCSI would be much better.. but the price difference is just too astronomical for the capacities we need (500GB to 2 TB) Even 10K RPM IDE drives seem like would be a problem since they are