On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>
> > > Not really. The customer whose box this is chose this much memory
> > > because his previous server was a 256MB UltraSparc that was swamped all
> > > the
> > > time with a load of 6 to 7.
> > Alas, since Solaris doesn't overcommit... :-)
>
> This isn't a comment meant to contribute to the overcommit holy war
> (opinion mode: I think FreeBSD should overcommit, or at worst have a
> sysctl and default to overcommit - admins who don't want overcommit can
> then hang themselves), but we have to be a wee bit careful when throwing
> load averages around...
>
> I've seen FreeBSD boxes virtually unuseable with 3-4 loads, and Solaris
> boxes still chugging away at 5+... Perhaps 'load average' is being
> calculated a wee bit differently.
Speaking about loads, I have a question that I can't figure out...
On one of our systems which is a Pentium II 400 with the ABIT BH6 with 384
megs of RAM. Just for reference, the previous was a AMD K6-233 on a ASUS
P55T2P4 with 64 Megs of RAM. It seems like whether there is a heavy load
or light load, at times, when typing just w in the shell or any command or
even in pine, the FreeBSD OS would just hang for like 30 seconds or so...
It isn't a network issue either because I can jump around in my screen
windows but just commands don't work like in real time. There is this
long delay. Anyone have any ideas what can be causing this?
Cheers,
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