Re: FC3 and system performance
From: Marko Nurmenniemi (no.way_at_kolumbus.fi)
Date: 12/22/04
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:31:50 +0200
Ross wrote:
> Hi,
> we have a biprocessor server (PIII 500 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM) running Fedora
> Core 3 with severe perfomance problems. Memory usage is almost at 99%,
> the swap partition has ben set to 2 Gb but it is never used.
> The cached memory is now more than 170 Mb.
>
> This is the output of FREE:
>
> total used free shared buffers
> cached
>
> Mem: 254980 252984 1996 0 17620
> 172984
>
> -/+ buffers/cache: 62380 192600
>
> Swap: 2100816 15520 2085296
>
>
> The system is slow and network users (roughly 15) complain about that.
> Why the swap partition is not being used? We could add more RAM but,
> in general, how can we optimize the system performance?
>
> Thanks.
>
If you are not actually using the X full time, you could let the server
run on level 3 (from root account write "init 3") to decrease the load
on the processor.
This is still multiuser state but one without the graphical UI.
Also if it seems slow it might be that the processor is slow for the
task it is doing. What is the purpose of this server?
-M
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