From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 03:21:56 2005 Return-Path: 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 4721E16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:21:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC95243D49 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:21:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7863D12B13D for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:21:49 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18492-10 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:21:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-186-245.eastlink.ca [24.224.186.245]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECDB12B139 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:21:48 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2678C3B34D; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:21:54 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259023B228 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:21:54 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:21:54 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050208231208.B94338@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Subject: vinum in 4.x poor performer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 03:21:56 -0000 I have a Dual-Xeon server with 4G of RAM, with its primary file system consisting of 4x73G SCSI drives running RAID5 using vinum ... the operating system is currently FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Fri Oct 22 15:06:55 ADT 2004 ... swap usage is 0% (6149) ... and it performs worse then any of my other servers, and I have less running on it then the other servers ... I also have HTT disabled on this server ... and softupdates enabled on the file system ... That said ... am I hitting limits of software raid or is there something I should be looking at as far as performance is concerned? Maybe something I have misconfigured? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664