Ok. I see your point and lesson is learned. Will do as suggested.

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote:

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> You really need to learn something more about system administration; you
> clearly don't know what to investigate but this is all fundamental sysadmin
> knowledge.
>
> First things first - when something is "slow" - what exactly is slow? Is
> it using excessive CPU time? Is it waiting for disk I/O? Every sysadmin
> should automatically ask this question first of all, and every sysadmin
> should know how to tell the difference. If you don't know these things then
> you are not qualified to be a sysadmin and need to go get training. This is
> not the forum for teaching you these things.
>
> Copy/pasting someone else's VM tuning settings without understanding what
> they mean or why they are being set is "cargo cult sysadmin". It is wrong
> and nobody on this list / in this community should be encouraging it. Quick
> easy spoonfed answers don't actually help understanding, and understanding
> is the only real way forward.
>
> In particular, VM tuning settings are highly OS dependent, and probably
> kernel version dependent too. Good settings depend on exactly what your own
> system contains; settings that work for someone else may be useless or
> worse on your own setup.
>
> Simple answers have narrow relevance that gets obsolete quickly. Learning
> how to think and investigate problems is knowledge that serves you the rest
> of your life.
>
> As a starting point - what does vmstat tell you? Don't just paste its
> output here, learn what it means.
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>   CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
>   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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