Re: [exim] Finding system bottlenecks to speed up Exim

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
>> The server is a dual core AMD running at 3ghz and has 8 gigs of ram.
>> Running 64bit Fedora 8.
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> "fedora" and "server" are mutually exclusive terms.
Works fine for me.
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>> I'm running the old xosview program to watch various loads.
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> You have X installed on a server?
Yes - but I run in from remote on my home workstation. I install X
because if I'm at the colo at 2:00am trying to fix something sometimes I
need to search Google to find out how to fix somethiung. But I don't run
X on the server normally.
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>> Disk IO is not real heavy. It has a reasonably fast SATA II drive
>> that's not very full. Writes about 3 gigs of log file entries a day.
>>
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> A server with _one_ disk?
I have 2 drives in this server.
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>> Or - what tools or tricks can I use to see where the bottleneck is
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> The usual *stat tools will tell you for sure, but I'm betting that
> you're IO bound.
What stat tools specifically? Yes, I think I'm IO bound. I think it's
the number of connections and the TCP stack that's slowing me down.
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