On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:04:04PM -0500, Chuck wrote: > > I am more than amazed at the server usage statics I am presented with > every time I check them, initially to the point I kept verifying that > the guests were running and all was well!!! > > We have a 4 processor machine with 3gb ram installed presently running > 9 guests, 5 of which are quite busy. > > 3 name servers all of which are authority servers for several thousand > domains. > > 1 radius server that is busy enough i must kill the log tail to be > able to read it > > 1 smtp gateway that is also busy enough i cannot read the log via tail > > 2 monitoring systems that test and graph our entire network and page > us if there are problems > > 1 dsl authentication server handling more than 200 client > routers/modems > > 1 medium load web server > > When each of these were running on their own servers, they used a > reasonable amount of resources. > > All combined are only using the below resources.. the friggin machine > is loafing!! > > vtop: > > top - 11:34:09 up 20 days, 12:28, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.11, 0.09 > Tasks: 229 total, 1 running, 228 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu0 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > Cpu1 : 1.5% us, 1.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.5% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > Cpu2 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > Cpu3 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > Mem: 3115504k total, 2719776k used, 395728k free, 218160k buffers > Swap: 3903784k total, 980k used, 3902804k free, 1657892k cached > > > free: > > phoenix vservers # free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3115504 2718772 396732 0 223788 1658112 > -/+ buffers/cache: 836872 2278632 > Swap: 3903784 980 3902804 > > > This boggles my mind. They seem to be impossibly low usage rates for > a host which runs ntpd serving every machine in our organization and > all of our customers, a caching name server for the guests, a pvt > jabber/conferencing server and several critical services itself, and > 9 guests! I now feel confident enough in this system to move 30 more > servers over to it :)
great! such feedback is really appreciated ... (makes us all proud of our work) > THANK YOU VSERVER DEVELOPMENT TEAM!!!! (in the name of all others) you are very welcome! thanks again, Herbert > -- > > Chuck > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
