Re: Slow on heavy I/O operations.

es with other I/O operations in the system, which explains the symptoms that you're seeing. > What should I do? Either add more RAM, or reduce the memory requirements of your applications, if possible. Another work-around wold be to add a second disk and use it exclusively for swap. Th

Re: How to increase traffic

ffic. How do those 100% distribute across system, interrupt and user? A few lines output from the command "vmstat 5" might be helpful. > net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536 I don't think that changing that value buys you anything. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH &a

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

Jerry Bell wrote: > I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. > [...] > changed the clock to TSC As far as I know, it is unsafe to use TSC on SMP systems. Or did that change recently? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. K

Re: Why are disk writes so slow?

e the system disk for benchmarks. If you want to benchmark the pure speed of the drive (not the speed of the file system), then don't put a filesystem on the disk at all. Instead, use the raw device. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567