Re: page fault degaradation performance

2007-11-08 Thread Doug Clements
Running out of memory and having to continually swap things in and out of ram degrades performance, yes. Page faults are simply how the virtual memory subsystem gets things done, like pulling things out of swap. --Doug On Nov 7, 2007 7:48 PM, binto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw Even page fault

Re: page fault degaradation performance

2007-11-07 Thread Doug Clements
On 11/6/07, binto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanna know, how to reduce the number of page faults to upgrade program or OS performance? is there any parameters that i must set if i reduce the number of page fault? Don't forget that some amount of page faults are normal consequences of

Re: Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-18 Thread Doug Clements
On 10/17/07, Doug Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you also send the output of ps -auxl? Also - do you notice this performance drop when running something like one of the network performance tools? I'd like to isolate the disk activity from the network activity for a clean test

Re: Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-17 Thread Doug Clements
Can you also send the output of ps -auxl? Also - do you notice this performance drop when running something like one of the network performance tools? I'd like to isolate the disk activity from the network activity for a clean test.. I tested this with iperf, and while I did see some nfs

Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-15 Thread Doug Clements
Hi, I have an new NFS server that is processing roughly 15mbit of NFS traffic that we recently upgraded from an older 4.10 box. It has a 3-ware raid card, and is serving NFS out a single em nic to LAN clients. The machine works great just serving NFS, but when I try to copy data from one raid

Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-15 Thread Doug Clements
Hi, I have an new NFS server that is processing roughly 15mbit of NFS traffic that we recently upgraded from an older 4.10 box. It has a 3-ware raid card, and is serving NFS out a single em nic to LAN clients. The machine works great just serving NFS, but when I try to copy data from one raid