On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:35:26PM -0600, William Baker wrote: > It's hard to tell. The CPU is under a reasonable load (uptime shows 1.0 > - 2.0), no swapping, and the hard drive is churning away continually.
The "load average" is relatively meaningless. What's the actualy CPU utilization as shown by top, vmstat, or similar tools? > Is atime being updated continuously? I'll mount with noatime and try it > again, though I suspect it is something else. I forgot to mention file > system is ext2. That could be, but it should affect things much either. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.15-Yahoo-SMP: up 50 days, processed 1,887,459,919 queries (429/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]