RE: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-12 Thread John Straiton
> The first step would be to try to quantify the performance > difference in serving the actual web pages. Find a single > page that you think is slow on the production system and that > can be accessed without having to be part of a session, and > quantify the performance difference for that p

Re: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:30:59PM -0400, John Straiton wrote: > If 5.1-C has debugging on by default then , yes, I'd concur that we have > those features turned on. 5.1-CURRENT indeed has a number of debugging features enabled by default, which can cause significant performance loss under load.

Re: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-11 Thread Sean Chittenden
> > Post your kernel configs, or better yet, do a diff -u between the > > 5.0-R and the 5.1-C kernel configs. I bet dime to dollar you've > > got some debugging options enabled in the 5.1-C config. At the > > very least you haven't remove the debugging options from your > > malloc options. > > *

RE: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-11 Thread John Straiton
> There's lots of tricky stuff that can be going wrong. > I spent some time in my last two jobs (anybody got > a new one in NJ?) on speeding up stuff like this > and the first thing I try to do is put some kind of > steady-state load on the boxen and monitor each box involved > with systat 1 -vm

RE: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-11 Thread John Straiton
> Post your kernel configs, or better yet, do a diff -u between > the 5.0-R and the 5.1-C kernel configs. I bet dime to dollar > you've got some debugging options enabled in the 5.1-C > config. At the very least you haven't remove the debugging > options from your malloc options. *frown* The

Re: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Terribile
John Straiton writes: > I'm pretty confused right now with trying to > determine the nature of a performance problem ... > on one of my servers. ... in pulling up websites > from the machine, my silly POS development > box has nearly double performance ... There's lots of tricky stuff that can b

Re: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-11 Thread Marc Slemko
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, John Straiton wrote: > Greets! > > I'm pretty confused right now with trying to determine the nature of a > performance problem I'm having on one of my servers. The server is a > webserver with a separate db/file server sitting behind it. The issue is > that in pulling up webs

RE: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-11 Thread John Straiton
> > I'm pretty confused right now with trying to determine the > nature of a > > performance problem I'm having on one of my servers. The > server is a > > webserver with a separate db/file server sitting behind it. > The issue > > is that in pulling up websites from the machine, my silly PO

Re: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chris Pressey wrote: [ ... ] - Is it possible the server has too much RAM? I don't remember where I heard that that can degrade performance, but I'm pretty sure it was on one of the freebsd lists a couple of months ago. One of the early Pentium Pro/P2 chipsets, either the 430VX or the 430FX?, was

Re: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-11 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:42:41 -0400 "John Straiton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greets! > > I'm pretty confused right now with trying to determine the nature of a > performance problem I'm having on one of my servers. The server is a > webserver with a separate db/file server sitting behind