Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:45:58 -0000 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Brett Bump" <bbump@rsts.org>, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System perforamance 4.x vs. 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <009f01c86f5b$5e455bd0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <20080214114759.R75215@mail.rsts.org><47B49A16.1080103@FreeBSD.org> <20080214131026.Y75492@mail.rsts.org>
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From: "Brett Bump" <bbump@rsts.org>
> I would call 120 processes with a load average of 0.03 and 99.9 idle
> with 10-20 sendmail processes and 30 apache jobs nothing to write home
> about. But when that jumps to 250 processes, a load average of 30 with
> 50% idle (5-10 second waits on single character ssh echo) a bit busy.
> That usually means my heavy pop3 users are checking in at the same time
> someone (or 2 or 3) have sent email to the large volume listservs. Proc
> stat doesn't show as much as gstat and iostat. Gstat alwasy shows my
> drive with /var/mail being 97-100% busy and iostat will always show hi
> tps rates, but never anything above 8MB/s (4.10 gave me 30MB/s+).
Are you running any php on your machine? If so did you upgrade php as
well from say 5.1.x => 5.2.x and make use of open_basedir is so
the following thread may be interest:-
PHP with open_basedir performance problem
Regards
Steve
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