FreeBSD 5.x performance tips (ISC)
Jon Noack
noackjr at compgeek.com
Mon Jan 12 17:32:08 PST 2004
First place I'd look would be the performance@ list, but that's just me ;-).
Jon
On 1/12/2004 6:59 PM, Peter Losher wrote:
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> So, as many of you know ISC hosts a quad-Xeon server running FreeBSD 5.1
> (-p10 to be precise) which hosts half of ftp.freebsd.org, etc. Many of you
> helped out with some teething pains w/ virtual memory sizes, and kernel
> panics. Thanks :)
>
> The issue with the system now is that while the kernel is SMP-aware, and as I
> watch 5.2-REL get downloaded today, this system is like the arm muscle that
> is developed to lift that barbell, but not enough blood is getting
> everywhere, so the barbell is slowly moving up while the muscle cramps like
> hell. In this case the system is ~70% idle, and around 150 processes are
> locked and the performance starts to seriously decrease at times. (Entropy
> stops getting collected, etc.) Not a pretty sight. The CPU's are all
> spinlocking on an I/O channel. so high I/O translates into artificial high
> cpu and load averages.
>
> So where can I look for pointers on how I can squeeze better performance out
> of this configuration? I already have the usual sysctl entries installed.
> Any chance moving to 5.2 will help the situation?
>
> Best Wishes - Peter
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