I'm wondering about that. However, the database server and the server doing the bulk loads are on the same subnet. Traceroute shows only a single hop. Traceroute and ping both show reply times in the area of .25 - .50 ms or so. Is that reasonable?
__________________________________________________________________________________ *Mike Blackwell | Technical Analyst, Distribution Services/Rollout Management | RR Donnelley* 1750 Wallace Ave | St Charles, IL 60174-3401 Office: 630.313.7818 mike.blackw...@rrd.com http://www.rrdonnelley.com <http://www.rrdonnelley.com/> * <mike.blackw...@rrd.com>* On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Mike Blackwell <mike.blackw...@rrd.com> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> I'd run vmstat and look for high cs or int numbers (100k and above) to > >> see if you're maybe seeing an issue with that. A lot of times a > >> "slow" server is just too much process switching. But yeah, the > >> graphs you've posted don't seem overly bad. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the tip. Here's a quick look at those numbers under that same > > load. Watching it for a while longer didn't show any spikes. That > doesn't > > seem to be it, either. > > Yep it all looks good to me. Are you sure you're not getting network > lag or something like that? >