Adding a warning to an earlier comment: > The 1 minute average is 2.37 -- but the 5/15 min averages are over 5 !!! > i.e. we may not see the culprit, nor can we tell if swap was maxed out > when the load was over 5. You could get an idea by watching the LED > indicating disk activity (if your box has such)
The problem may not be that swap is *maxed* out, but that the machine is swapping itself literally to death. Constantly hitting that 2 GB swap partition may simply wear out your hard drive. Has happened to me/a client who's ISP was too cheap to add more memory. It may be far fetched, but if you could add a fast SATA drive and put the swap partition there? - Horst ----- Original Message ---- From: Joseph Weston Morgan <[email protected]> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 4:01:03 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] slow system Where do you go to slow down the refresh to 5 sec? top -d 5 As Matt just said :-) _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
