From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 0:47:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED8B37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 00:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (oe16.pav2.hotmail.com [64.4.36.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2739A43E42 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 00:46:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unixtools@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 00:46:01 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [202.41.224.36] From: "Unix Tools" To: "Marc Schneiders" , "Matthew Emmerton" Cc: References: <20020830220253.N29127-100000@voo.doo.net> Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 01:30:40 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Sep 2002 07:46:01.0797 (UTC) FILETIME=[9E4D5F50:01C2518B] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Could you please print your top output here, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Schneiders" To: "Matthew Emmerton" Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 01:35 AM Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, at 14:42 [=GMT-0400], Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > > >> (08.30.2002 @ 1157 PST): Marc Schneiders said, in 2.2K: << > > > > I did, and the load is low. There is more than enough RAM, swap isn't > > > > ever used. See top output below, with a remark: If I do not run > > > > dnetc, it doesn't get better. > > > > > > > > last pid: 28885; load averages: 1.02, 1.08, 1.02 up 39+03:29:08 20:56:06 > > > > 26 processes: 2 running, 24 sleeping > > > > > > that's a low load? i'd hate to see your system under a heavy load. > > > > > > i find it hard to believe that not running dnetc wouldn't improve speed. > > > dnetc is very CPU intensive, and will slow down a system. > > > > While that's true, I've found dnetc to be very un-intrusive. I run it all > > the time on my machines (dual P166's - yes, that's Pentium One) and I > > never have performance problems - it just adjusts it's priority when I > > come in to actually use the machine. > > That is my experience too, running it on two dual Pentium Pro > machines. > > > One thing though - are you sure you've got dnetc configured to > > run at the lowest priority (at-idle), so that it will give up the > > CPU when it is needed for something else (thttpd, vi, etc)? > > Yes. And in any case, my problem does not diminish when I don't run > dnetc. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message