Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] High load, low CPU and processes in state devfs

2008-06-15 Thread Mohit Anchlia
You'll need to analyze this data with what you are seeing on this system. I suggest you get sar like tool. Look at http://www.googlebit.com/bsdsar/ or see this post too

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] High load, low CPU and processes in state devfs

2008-06-14 Thread Stut
Thanks Mohit. Shortly after you sent this last night I enabled system accounting. There's now a fair amount of data in the output but I'm not really sure where to find the disk wait times... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# sa 4106544351.99re 428.71cp 11avio 823k 8678

[EMAIL PROTECTED] High load, low CPU and processes in state devfs

2008-06-13 Thread Stut
Hi, I have a problem with one of the web servers I manage. It runs FreeBSD 6.2, Apache 2.2.8 and PHP 5.2.1. It runs a high-ish number of pre-fork processes (usually around 240). What basically happens is that during our peak hours in the evening the site becomes very slow as does

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] High load, low CPU and processes in state devfs

2008-06-13 Thread Dragon
Stut wrote: Hi, I have a problem with one of the web servers I manage. It runs FreeBSD 6.2, Apache 2.2.8 and PHP 5.2.1. It runs a high-ish number of pre-fork processes (usually around 240). What basically happens is that during our peak hours in the evening the site becomes very slow as does

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] High load, low CPU and processes in state devfs

2008-06-13 Thread Stut
On 13 Jun 2008, at 22:37, Dragon wrote: Stut wrote: Hi, I have a problem with one of the web servers I manage. It runs FreeBSD 6.2, Apache 2.2.8 and PHP 5.2.1. It runs a high-ish number of pre- fork processes (usually around 240). What basically happens is that during our peak hours in

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] High load, low CPU and processes in state devfs

2008-06-13 Thread Dragon
Stut wrote: On 13 Jun 2008, at 22:37, Dragon wrote: Stut wrote: Hi, I have a problem with one of the web servers I manage. It runs FreeBSD 6.2, Apache 2.2.8 and PHP 5.2.1. It runs a high-ish number of pre- fork processes (usually around 240). What basically happens is that during our peak

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] High load, low CPU and processes in state devfs

2008-06-13 Thread Stut
On 13 Jun 2008, at 22:56, Dragon wrote: Stut wrote: On 13 Jun 2008, at 22:37, Dragon wrote: Stut wrote: Hi, I have a problem with one of the web servers I manage. It runs FreeBSD 6.2, Apache 2.2.8 and PHP 5.2.1. It runs a high-ish number of pre- fork processes (usually around 240).

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] High load, low CPU and processes in state devfs

2008-06-13 Thread Mohit Anchlia
look at sar output and see the wait times on the disk is more than the service time. On 6/13/08, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Jun 2008, at 22:56, Dragon wrote: Stut wrote: On 13 Jun 2008, at 22:37, Dragon wrote: Stut wrote: Hi, I have a problem with one of the web servers I

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] High load, low CPU and processes in state devfs

2008-06-13 Thread Stut
On 13 Jun 2008, at 23:38, Mohit Anchlia wrote: look at sar output and see the wait times on the disk is more than the service time. That command doesn't seem to exist on FreeBSD. Do you know if there's an equivalent command? -Stut On 6/13/08, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Jun

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] High load, low CPU and processes in state devfs

2008-06-13 Thread Mohit Anchlia
try sa On 6/13/08, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Jun 2008, at 23:38, Mohit Anchlia wrote: look at sar output and see the wait times on the disk is more than the service time. That command doesn't seem to exist on FreeBSD. Do you know if there's an equivalent command? -Stut On