On 24 Sep 2002, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 18:07, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote: > > On 24 Sep 2002, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: > > > > > probably you want to run the iostat 1 during heavier load... > > > however the summary result does look funny to me... > > > > > > On my system we have ~ 1:1 ratio of reads to writes > > > you have a ~ 1:200 ratio of reads to writes. > > > Does that make sense in your environment? > > > > Didn't you have a look into the first lines where's the summary output > > from iostat? > > > sure i did... maybe i'm misreading it > avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %idle > 16.79 0.00 26.39 56.82 > > Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn > dev8-0 11.80 2.24 184.95 541354 44609586 > dev8-1 11.80 1.67 184.95 403090 44609586 > > Unless I'm mistaken the summary says that (on average) he only has 2 > reads/s vs 185 writes/s
You are right, sure. But my point was why is the *current* load that high. That's why I had a look on statistics per every second. > > > All those other remaining output lines show zero disk > > activity ... > That's why I suggested he run iostat when the system is under more load. In principal I agree anyway. ;) > > > > > > > > It doesn't look like your system has a memory problem so i'd not worry > > > about vmstat. > > > > I'd would worry. Actually, what says "dmesg" command? > The reason I think memory is no problem here is: > Mem: 3229040K av, 3166372K used, 62668K free, 0K shrd, 148480K > buff > Swap: 513976K av, 0K used, 513976K free 2758060K > cached > > so the swap file has not been touched and there is 2.7gig of disk being > cached in RAM Yes, but the "sy" column in the output of vmstat was quite high. That worries me. ;) I think we should not Cc: the samba email list to these emails anymore. ;) -- Martin Mokrejs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs MIPS / Institute for Bioinformatics <http://mips.gsf.de> GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany tel.: +49-89-3187 3683 , fax: +49-89-3187 3585 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
