With only a partial listing of the output of top, it is hard to make any intelligent suggestions for improving performance. If you want sensible advice, try telling us more, such as: 1. What are the basics specs of the system -- CPU, hard disk info (types, sizes, speeds), etc.? What Linux distribution & version? What kernel version? 2. How is it connected to the Internet? Is it on a LAN as well? If yes, does it serve as gateway &/or firewall? Does it do IP masq for other hosts on the LAN? 3. How are the drives partitioned and how full are they (output of "df")? How fragmented are the filesystems? 4. What are the top dozen or so processes in the "top" list, and what is the output of "free" (particularly the +/- buffers numbers)? 5. MOST IMPORTANT -- in what ways are you dissatisfied with the system's present performance? The output from top that you provided looks pretty good, taken by itself. For general advice on performance issues, I'd suggest reading Patrick Killelea's _Web Performance Tuning_ (O'Reilly, 1998. $32.95 list), which covers server perfoamcne tuning well beyond Web-specific issues and does concentrate on Unix (including Linux) systems. At 06:44 PM 4/12/99 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Here is output of top. >I am looking for better performance. What must I upgrade? >This computer is WWW, mail, and name server. > > > > 8:42pm up 1 day, 8:41, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.17, 0.10 >40 processes: 39 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped >CPU states: 7.1% user, 9.8% system, 0.0% nice, 83.3% idle >Mem: 22164K av, 21264K used, 900K free, 25356K shrd, 2940K buff >Swap: 102812K av, 0K used, 102812K free 7980K cached ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo 762 Garland Drive Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 650.328.4219 voice [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------
