16 Oct
2003
16 Oct
'03
10:02 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:36:10PM -0400, devnull@adc.idt.com wrote:
Have you tried to look at sysstat and see if you are CPU bound?
look at sysstat -x 1, notably, look for disk utilization and the the colum that has ':,F,T,B' in it. If you see lots of 'B' (back-to-back flushes) than you are simply maxing out your filers ability to flush NVRAM to disk. You may be able to speed it up by adding spindles (easiest) and possible some other tweaks.
It's also possible that you've got packet loss on the network and are getting lots of retrans.
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