Hi Drexx, Have you saved typical performance outputs (top, free, ps -aux, dmesg) for analysis?
Regards, On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:33 AM, thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Drexx, > > Semi-OT reply but could be related.Are you using LVM? > > If you are using LVM, I got same issue on another UNIX OS (AIX) and we > found out the system is hitting paging logical volume (lv) (read > pegging to 80-100%) instead of the lvs for Oracle. We re-layout the > paging into 3 separate lv of equal size and do some virtual memory > parameter and kernel tunings as per that OS and Oracle recommendation. > > Look at your iostat which file system its hitting and you could do > perf tuning as per RHEL recommendation. NMON would be a great tool to > use it also works on Linux and we also use filemon(though not sure if > this available for Linux) parse its output with a perl utility > filemon.pl and thats when we i identified that our wait state is > hitting the paging and also confirmed that its not bottlenecking on > physical volume layer. > > > > hth, > > Thad > > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Drexx Laggui [personal] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 02May2008 (UTC +8) > > > > The wait states of Red Hat Enterprise v5.1 x86_64 is unbearable with > > CryptLUKS (on SATA2 1TB HDD's) --and I haven't even installed VMware > > 1.0.5 yet! It was so terrible that my machine would hang several > > times, and eventually crash. 4GB RAM and 2.4GHz quad-core CPU were > > whipped. Used top and iostat to monitor what I could. Anybody > > experienced the same thing? > > > > Thought I'd migrate from Fedora 8 to RHEL 5. Bad move that cost me a > > weekend++. I'm back to Fedora 9 now though, so everything has been > > working like a charm again, even VMware 1.0.6 (with Windows XP SP1, > > Solaris 10, OpenSolaris 05.2008, SLAX's BackTrack v3, all operational > > simultaneously). > > > > > > Drexx Laggui -- CISA, CISSP, CFE Associate, ISO27001 LA, CCSI, CSA > > http://www.laggui.com ( Singapore / Manila / California ) > > Computer forensics; Penetration testing; QMS & ISMS developers; > K-Transfer > > PGP fingerprint = 6E62 A089 E3EA 1B93 BFB4 8363 FFEC 3976 FF31 8A4E > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > -- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > sometimes truth is stranger than fiction > -bad religion- > http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mailist > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > I don't think the computers will take over the world. I have a bucket of > water. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- -- Xander Solis xrsolis.blogspot.com
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