On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:23:48AM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> Also, my system is doing something like 500 disk transactions a
> second, which is obviously stupid when it's only transferring
> 2MB/s. Does anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this disk
> load? The server is a proliant DL360 G4 with 1GB ram, dual 3.4GHz
> xeons and two seagate 7200.7 160GB sata drives in raid 1 (breaking
> the raid makes no difference).
One of the obvious things that people do with servers is give them a
lot of CPU and almost no RAM.
Bring your RAM up.
A lot of disk I/O means that something is very busy, more than likely,
you are hitting your VM system.
2MB/sec of what kind of traffic? If email, then yah, more RAM for
sure.
-- Mike Horwath, reachable via drechsau@Geeks.ORGReceived on Tue Aug 2 07:57:21 2005
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