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

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Author: Johann Spies
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Subject: Re: [exim] Finding system bottlenecks to speed up Exim
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:19:02PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:

> 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.


You don't need X to search Google. What about w3m, elinks, links2 and
lynx: browsers that don't need X.


> > 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.
> >


vmstat, dstat, iostat

Regards
Johann
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