Matthew Gardiner wrote:
> 2008/7/5 James C. McPherson <James.C.McPherson at gmail.com
...
> Matthew, I repeat - if you want help, please provide _data_
> so that people who are interested enough to want to help, can
> start doing so. All you've done so far is rant.
>
> And yes, I'm very well aware of that particular webpage, and
> that sentence. I use it myself quite frequently.
>
> So again, where is the data? What have you done to help us
> help you figure out what is going on?
>
>
> So how do I get this 'data'? I'm happy to provide it, if people tell me
> what they need to know.
I did already mention one or two tools you could use:
iostat
vmstat
intrstat
prstat
When the system is running slowly, gather 1 minute's worth
of output at 1second intervals from each of iostat, vmstat
and intrstat. Log those to a file, make the files available
on a website somewhere and tell us where.
Run iostat as "iostat -Xn 1 60"
Run vmstat as "vmstat 1 60"
Run intrstat as "intrstat 1 60"
Does the slowness happen all the time? If not, what sort of
tasks are you doing when it starts to run slowly?
How long after boot does it take to run slowly?
How much ram is in this system?
How much disk space? how much is allocated to swap?
What video card do you have? How much vram is on it?
Which GUI are you using - gnome, kde, something else?
What apps do you run with it?
Does the slow performance occur when you ssh into the system,
or is it only when you're using it as a desktop system?
Has the problem always existed on this machine, no matter
which build you run on it?
If no, then when did the problem start? (Which build of OpenSolaris?)
That should be enough to get started on forming a picture
of what might be possible causes.
James C. McPherson
--
Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter
http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp
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