** 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 ....?



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