On Monday 09 February 2004 10:45, Randy Rue wrote:
"iostat -x -d" did show some heavier stats for the root drive, especially the swap partition, and the fact that this appears to be related to caching of commands and filenames made me wonder if caching/paging/swapping was bogging down somewhere.
So is it pageing? Do you need more ram? If swap isn't being activly used then regardless how fast your swap drive is it would make no difference. Your numbers do not suggest any significant paging at all. The 18gig swap space may actually slow it down if it were to be used, but as you pointed out, it didn't help at all. So what does jump to the top of top when you enter a directory? Are you 100% positive your RAID is not running with a failed drive? Your raid card might be working its little chips to the bone while your main CPU is sitting around idle waiting for data. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen