Solaris 9 performance questions.

From: Pete (pete@peteland.org)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 01:53:37 EST


Good morning, all.

I've got an issue with the overall performance of Solaris 9 on a Ultra
5. It just seems really slow and sluggish. I will do a ls -la and it
pauses for second before proceeding. At first, I figured it was just
heavy loads on the processor, but that doesn't seem to be the case. The
Ultra that is having the problems looks like this:

Ultra 5
333MHZ
512 MB Ram
2 x 13.8 GB Drives

Here is a vmstat on the above mentioned box:

[mapper:1:/export/home/peterf] vmstat
 kthr memory page disk faults
cpu
 r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr dd dd f0 s1 in sy cs us
sy id
 0 0 0 1266368 331744 12 156 4 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 416 358 246 2
4 95

And a 'top':

load averages: 0.14, 0.10, 0.11
00:50:33
58 processes: 57 sleeping, 1 on cpu
CPU states: % idle, % user, % kernel, % iowait, %
swap
Memory: 512M real, 312M free, 158M swap in use, 1237M swap free

   PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
 14943 peterf 1 59 0 2072K 1320K sleep 19:31 0.47% top
 20216 peterf 1 49 0 2024K 1168K cpu 0:00 0.24% top
 19963 root 1 59 0 4552K 2864K sleep 0:00 0.17% sshd
     1 root 1 59 0 1208K 352K sleep 6:05 0.12% init
 19965 peterf 1 49 0 2784K 2336K sleep 0:00 0.05% tcsh
   222 root 20 59 0 3176K 2576K sleep 1:20 0.04% nscd
  2722 root 7 59 0 2400K 2112K sleep 0:16 0.03% mibiisa
   305 root 1 59 0 2728K 1576K sleep 0:00 0.00% sshd
   267 root 2 59 0 0K 0K sleep 3:38 0.00% dsmc
 14933 root 1 59 0 4512K 2848K sleep 0:15 0.00% sshd
   255 root 1 59 0 2744K 1688K sleep 0:15 0.00% sendmail
   164 root 1 59 0 2224K 1496K sleep 0:15 0.00% inetd
  3572 root 23 59 0 4696K 2016K sleep 0:05 0.00% syslogd
 24008 nobody 4 59 0 24M 5648K sleep 0:01 0.00% httpd
 24020 nobody 4 59 0 24M 5512K sleep 0:01 0.00% httpd

Prior to Solaris 9, it ran nice and fast. Now, what makes this really
strange is the other Ultra runs fine - and it is built out like this:

Ultra 5
270 MHZ
256 MB Ram
1 x 13.8 GB Drive

As you can see, it's got a slower processor and less RAM. They've both
got the same install from the same media kits. I did some digging
around on the web for tips, but nothing seems to help.

Does anyone here have any ideas?

Thanks!

- pete
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