-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stewart Stremler wrote: > Have we run any profiling tools on the existing server to determine > where the real bottlenecks are, rather than speculating?
I've been running iostat and vmstat. The big problem I see is cpu. CPU usage goes to 100% during a page load and stays there for a few seconds. I think that is where most of our delay comes from. Occasionally we see some swapping also. It is 289M into swap and has 512M of RAM. > A new server would be okay. What are our funds like? As far as I know we have thousands and nothing to spend it on. Except perhaps a server. > Going uber-cheap-but-better-than-what-we-have-now is nice, and > spending decent money for a really good machine is nice; I'm not > so much happy with a middle-of-the-road approach, however. Unlike > James, I might be happier with $2k spent on a server than $1k. I could go either way. All the box really does is serve the webpage and mailing lists. I would definitely like reliability thus the mirrored disks. > [1] No idea if this is a processor, bus, disk, or software problem. Processor, then memory, then disk. And the software could be optimized a bit also but not really within the current memory constraints. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF1WdU9PIYKZYVAq0RAqnoAJ9cX7k5RpIDlQfroq3K9KP+qGz8iQCaAySj /2YqDENNJPjIrrnAXt4jdw0= =E22o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
