Re: Finding what's causing I/O

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Thomas Hurst wrote: * martinko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: well, thanks for the switch. i couldn't find any description/explanation of/on the columns (VCSW,..) in top(1) man page, though. :( VCSW = Voluntary Context Switch IVCSW = Involuntary Context Switch A very nice article on the meanin

increasing buffer cache

2005-09-27 Thread Petri Helenius
What are the parameters that need to be tuned on amd64 platform to get, say 1-1.5G buffer cache? Pete ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[E

Re: Combine more operation within one system call: to do it, or not to do it?

2005-09-27 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Xin LI wrote: It seems that Microsoft has recently revised several of their APIs. One example is their ConnectEx(), as found in documentation [1]. The implementation is not so complex that it just combines more operation within one system call, however, this can reduce som

Re: 3Ware 7500-4 Slow

2005-09-27 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: I bought the array here: http://www.acnc.com The biggest RAID-5 we have is on one of those boxes. So far has performed very well for us. ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: 3Ware 7500-4 Slow

2005-09-27 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: So-so. RAID-5 is okay on a IMAP reader box, it's not so good for a pure SMTP relay, especially one that does virus scanning. For our SMTP I think we will have "small" machines with RAID-1 If your DB claims to support a RAID-5 Will check. Will be us