[tech] I should be getting some sleep.

[James Andrewartha]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Simon Fryer wrote:

> Morning
> 
> During one of the laggy periods on mooneye I happened to be running top. The
> results where:
> 
>  01:14:31 up 41 days,  6:52,  9 users,  load average: 22.98, 13.17, 6.20
> 100 processes: 97 sleeping, 1 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  10.6% user,  22.2% system,   0.4% nice,  66.8% idle
> 
> Interesting to note that dispite a load average of > 22, cpu is > 60% idle. 
> The process list showed a lot of ypserv processes. It doesn't look like 
> mooneye has a CPU problem, rather a NIS or IO problem. 
> 
> Comments/observations everyone? Anyone?  

IO problems. The IDE card in mooneye is a dodgy old ISA one. Currently the
plan is to install the nice HPT370 based IDE controller and get speedy
disk access. It could also possibly do with more RAM, but a speedy VM
should help.

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