Burton Windle wrote (on Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 06:01:21PM -0500): > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Nachman Yaakov Ziskind wrote: > > >I have a server: > >2.4.20-28.7 #1 Thu Dec 18 11:31:59 EST 2003 i686 > > > > Looking at the output of 'top' may be helpful, as it will show if the > system is CPU or IO bound. However, plese note that 2.4.20 is quite old > (November of 2002), and contains numerous security holes. Upgrading to > something more recent, like 2.4.29, may be a good first start.
Thanks for the quick reply. Sar seems to indicate that the server is disk-bound (although some swapping is going on, so more RAM is on the way). CPU is idle, consistently, 99% of the time. Would upgrading the kernel help the disk performance? Server is not connected to the internet, so security concerns are not *that* important, but performance is ... -- _________________________________________ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, FSPA, LLM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://ziskind.us Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
