** Reply to note from Jobst Schmalenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:45:44 +1100
> > 10:53pm up 55 days, 9:13, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > 111 processes: 110 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > > CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle > > Mem: 247504K av, 233140K used, 14364K free, 0K shrd, 31116K buff > > Swap: 522104K av, 125344K used, 396760K free 78536K cached > I gather you run httpd/mysql/php and mail on that machine? yes, and BIND, and, everything else..... > Well 1 HTTPD process costs you about 17000k, and you havent got much left. > > Meaning that YOUR machine need to throw process out to swap to make > way for the "frsh" httpd process -> slowwwwwwww ...... > > Pumping up the CPU does not help as triple the RAM (considering it soooooooo > cheap in the moment), and RAM is cheaper than a new CPU. > > See the "cached"? > Thats what you are looking for! how much additional RAM would you suggest ? *if* I up the RAM, must I ? increase the disk swapper ....? Voytek Eymont Checked for Virus's by Asoft Email Scan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
