Re: [PERFORM] Adding RAM: seeking advice warnings of hidden gotchas

2003-12-17 Thread Eric Soroos
On Dec 17, 2003, at 11:57 AM, Nick Fankhauser wrote: Hi- After having done my best to squeeze better performance out of our application by tuning within our existing resources, I'm falling back on adding memory as a short-term solution while we get creative for a long-term fix. I'm curious

Re: [PERFORM] tuning questions

2003-12-04 Thread Eric Soroos
On Dec 4, 2003, at 10:11 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:57:38AM -0800, Dror Matalon wrote: I've seen this comment several times from different people. Would someone care to explain how you would get data corruption? I thought that the whole idea of the log is to provide a

Re: [PERFORM] tuning questions

2003-12-04 Thread Eric Soroos
IO is active, but hardly saturated. CPU load is hefty though, load average is at 4 now. procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id 0 2 1 2808 11432 39616 1902984 0 0 204