Re: Hardware spec

[Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>]

* Willo van der Merwe:

> Good advice. After running a vmstat and iostat, it is clear, to my
> mind anyway, that the most likely bottleneck is IO, next is probably
> some more RAM.

> Here's the output:
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- 
> ----cpu----
> r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us
> sy id wa
> 0  0  29688  80908 128308 3315792    0    0     8    63    6     8 17
> 2 80  1

You need to run "vmstat 10" (for ten-second averages) and report a
couple of lines.

> avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys %iowait   %idle
>          17.18    0.00    1.93    0.81   80.08

Same for iostat.

Your initial numbers suggest that your server isn't I/O-bound, though
(the percentage spent in iowait is much too small, and so are the tps
numbers).

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