you have a rather huge percentage of i/o wait. this could be caused by slow disks writing the kannel log, or cheap rtl81** nics doing polling. try to use faster disks, or intel / 3com and so on nics.
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:09:38PM +0200, Deon van der Merwe wrote: > Hi, > > We have been running a kannel service for about a week now. The setup is: > - single server > + 2Gb RAM > + Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz > + SCSI RAID1 > - 2 kannels > + each of them has a bearerbox and a wapbox > + each kannel instance gets different users based on the users IP address > + both kannels connects to a single local squid proxy > - Standard FC4 installation > - Doing about 29tps (sent) at peak times > - Doing about 20tps (received) at peak times > > If you take a look at the attached graphs, you will see the message > rates that it is running at. The graphs are generated from the admin > interface. > http://www.truteq.com/download/cpu-day.png > http://www.truteq.com/download/KannelStatus1-day.png > http://www.truteq.com/download/KannelStatus2-day.png > http://www.truteq.com/download/RadiusSessionCount-day.png > > My question is this: how does the load (normal Linux load*100) compare > to systems that you are running? > Do you have any tips for reducing the load? > Should we be worried about the load as it stands now? > > Here is also a snapshot from top: > top - 13:17:09 up 37 days, 1:08, 8 users, load average: 0.94, 0.71, 0.60 > Tasks: 119 total, 1 running, 118 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 5.8% us, 1.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 83.6% id, 8.6% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.3% si > Mem: 2074824k total, 2023448k used, 51376k free, 79768k buffers > Swap: 2096440k total, 1540k used, 2094900k free, 989360k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 1518 kannel 15 0 527m 410m 1956 S 4.7 20.2 35:56.27 > /usr/local/sbin/wapbox -v 4 /home/kannel/conf/kannel.conf > 13527 kannel 15 0 301m 186m 1828 S 4.0 9.2 33:03.74 > /usr/local/sbin/wapbox -v 4 /home/kannel/conf/postpaid.conf > 24110 squid 15 0 38960 35m 1828 S 3.0 1.7 138:05.56 (squid) -D > 1532 kannel 16 0 128m 3420 1156 S 1.3 0.2 17:57.43 > /usr/local/sbin/bearerbox -v 4 /home/kannel/conf/postpaid.conf > 1505 kannel 16 0 128m 3220 1148 S 1.0 0.2 6:56.03 > /usr/local/sbin/bearerbox -v 4 /home/kannel/conf/kannel.conf > 24145 root 16 0 2024 1024 788 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.06 top > 1 root 16 0 1748 572 492 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.59 init [5] >
