Re: Reducing I/O load of logging

2009-02-13 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi guys, On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:04:50AM -0500, John Lauro wrote: It wouldn't hurt to put RHEL 5 or Centos 5 on the box instead of FC. FC is generally meant for desktops instead of servers. A customer has encountered a similar issue a few times on RHEL3. We noticed there was swap on the

Re: Reducing I/O load of logging

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Fortson
Great suggestions, guys -- thank you. swapoff -a and flushing the caches didn't seem to help, so I set up a grep to trigger it and ran vmstat while it happened. Here's what it looked like: http://pastie.org/388711 (same below) # vmstat 1 20 procs ---memory-- ---swap--